Very excited about this project, any news on the progress?

Small status update. I am still working on reversing and ptool related code. All is going good.
This thing requires time and I do not have many available, unfortunately.

>Heck let's wait until Panasonic releases new GH2 firmware

I have big doubts that we'll see any firmware GH2 from Panasonic.
I think that they don't give a shit about NEX-7 (as well as for all their own products :-) ).

>I think they do care. Sony releasing NEX-C3 this week. GF3 next week.

They care only in marketing terms, not really.
They need to segment their production as they learned it in university.
Small->Larger->Large, No-Video->Bad Video->Good Video with manual control, you know.

>GH2's competitor is A77 coming next month. $1099 w/ a kit zoom.

A77 is not GH2 competitor. It's a Sony! (tm) :-) So, they sure make something wrong again (and I am not talking about wrong mount and wrong transparent mirror technology used, as it is default).

>Maybe GP1 to fight off NEX-7 this summer. Fight!!!

Rumors, rumors. Same shit.
Going back in rumor mill A77 and NEX-7 must be available for many months already.

>If A77 supports 24/25p and 24Mbps on all video modes, what can they do? Release GH3 this summer? Wouldn't it be easier to release a new firmware?

They'll just ignore it :-) With 99% probability development team moved to new cameras.
This is called capitalism, dude. They want to be such effective looking as they can (to bosses and shareholders, of course, not customers) :-)

That does make sense. Why waste manpower on updates on the Gh-2, when after 8 months they are putting out a GF-3. I guess those wonderful engineers are planning out our Gh-3s. What a strange difference between a 3+ year cycle with the Canon 5Ds and the 12 month or less cycle on a panny. When the new hack is done, I will finally get a GH-2. Thanks Vitaliy.

@_gl

Something like more than 24 hours in a day :-)

Btw, I am also fixing this forum engine issues from time to time :-)
Today email notices on followed topics started working as expected (this had been bug with about a year history).

@Vitaliy
When are you going to start hacking "time" then? Can I request 25 hours in a day for PAL countries and 23.976 hours in a day for all NTSC countries. I know it really isn't that big a difference but I am just anal that way.

I would love to see 60 hours(actually 59.94 hours) in a day eventually. However, I could live with having the option to select either 23.976 or 29.97(25 or 50 when visiting PAL countries) when I wake up in the morning. Is this possible? No rush, but I am willing to donate BIG money if you think this is possible.

:)

>Just to know if the hack is now an inevitable issue, and just a coding question time..

It is inevitable issue, but I need time :-)

I think the most exciting thing to learn once the hack is ready, is the high bitrate. We have 100mb rates now on a Gh-1 with 2 Venus processors. SD cards are getting faster. The GH-2 has 3 Venus engines. And I'm guessing more cache do to the larger Mega-pixels. Could we be squeezing out 150mb per sec?

With the added B frames, sharper image and lower instances of banding, etc, the picture would look much better than the GH1 as similar bitrates. I'm also thinking that the 50Mb range would be stunning and much better than the GH1 at 100Mb+. We'll see shortly.

Would there be any benefits to having a GH1 over the GH2 once the hack is released?