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What’s Inside a RED Mini-Mag? The Controversy & Jarred Land’s Statement

Did you know what kind of hardware rests inside of your RED Mini-Mag? Jinni Tech published a Youtube video of stripping down a RED Mini-Mag and revealing its contents. They claim that RED is only using generic OTS (off-the-shelf) hardware, and they accuse them of lying about the capacity and other attributes of their Mini-Mags. According to Jinni Tech RED is selling their media way over their real price. We reached out to RED Digital Cinema’s CEO Jarred Land and asked for a statement, and he sent us a lengthy response, which you can read at the bottom of this article. Jarred is explaining the background of the accusations from their point of view, explains the price of RED Mini-Mags and reacts to accusations in the video. Jarred also told us that in reaction to the JinniMag situation, RED will be updating price of their media next week. 480GB SSD inside 512GB RED Mini Mag. Source: Filmmaker using RED (cinema5D knows the identity) RED Mini-Mag Pricing If you have ever been shooting on RED, you probably thought to yourself that the RED Mini-Mags are quite expensive. RED knows their media is expensive and they explain it with much higher quality and reliability of their mags. RED CEO Jarred Land said they have developed their own IP and invested milions of dollars into testing, certifying, and quality checking each of their RED Mini-Mags. RED cameras are also programmed to only work with original RED Mini-Mags. Jinni Tech vs. RED Jinni Tech...

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Published By: CineD - Thursday, 11 July, 2019

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