yup.

Open answer to open letter. :-)

To make things short all this video letter(?) can be summed to three words - I do not understand!.

First. We live in capitalism, so complaining why Sony has huge margins on cameras and protects top models is strange. All they are doing is maximizing profits. Doing reverse thing - cutting margins and doing things people really need will bring only management change by owners.

Second. Usually it is not LSI, but CMOS sensor who is responsible for frame rates limits. Modern CMOS sensors are very complex and have build in logic. Sensors and camera LSI are almost ideal things that can be made very parallel. Hence main restrictions are not some fundamental things, but cost of development, cost of RAM and ability to preserve features for future cameras.

Third. Sony overheat issues comes not only from both LSI and sensor design where proper cooling was not main priority. Main issue lie from overall body design, lack of proper heat transfer metal parts, lack of good outer shell design for cooling, lack of proper battery compartment isolation and cooling. All this comes from idea to save on production costs.

Last. Almost all camera manufacturers moved production to China and/or Thailand due to cheaper workforce, materials and also good tax cuts. They want more profits at all costs. Almost all camera manufacturers try to outsource as much work as they can - read recent Sony sensors issue what had huge impact on all manufacturers. Same thing. This guys do not work for your good, for common good or for any good. They make products what will sell at certain margin.

Yes, that is a capitalist model. Early adopters pay the price and take the risks. If products are sub-standard, the products will ultimately fail and competition (Panny??) is given the opportunity to step in and garner more market share with superior products.

Capitalist system means what owners of capital not only decide that product to make, not only what their main goal is profits and not making best product, but they also have power to make laws, restrict or force information, and impose all this on you.

As for sub-standard products, you so oversimplify things. It is not property of capitalism, all same existed in slavery and feudalism. Supply of sub-standard product require some skills or properties, it is plenty of them always, you can open any good book about city markets (from very old days to current), it was always lot of scammers and cheaters.