Atomos Inferno launch - 4K 60p

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Tim Sewell

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I'm very hacked off about this. I know that you shouldn't buy products on the promise of future features, but Atomos have been promising 4K 60p on the Shogun virtually since its introduction. I bought a Shogun Flame just a week or so ago and days later they announce the Inferno. Had I known the Inferno was coming, with 4K 60p out of the box, I would have bought that instead. Now I'm left with the prospect of either trying to convince them to take it back (an exercise that I just don't have time in the day to undertake without other things suffering) so I can get the better model, or sitting tight and hoping they come good on their earlier promises.
To coin a phrase: #epicFail, Atomos.
Further - the question is: who would buy the Flame when the Inferno at just $300 more offers so much better functionality? With the Flame Atomos have introduced a new product with great fanfare, then orphaned it within days. This seems to me like very bad faith and sharp practise.
 
- don't get me wrong, btw, I love the Flame. I don't particularly need 4K 60p myself, but I bought the unit partly to hire out as a package with the FS700 and it would have been much more attractive to my target market with that feature.
 
I personally think Atomos have been very poor with their product releases of late. Too many, too fast - and too many promises of features which never come to earlier devices.

Alas, they have nailed the GUI and usability aspect of these devices...
 
I don't remember 60p ever promised on the Shogun... But their total lack of response when I tried to ask them if they were planning on supporting at least 2K in 60p and other questions was one of the reasons that led me to get the Odyssey 7Q+ instead. With the current discounts on the Odyssey, there's really no reason to go with a Shogun if you're an FS700 user... But the Inferno could change that...
 
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