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What I really want, from go pro or Sony is a global shutter. Rolling shutter needs to die.

AFAIK, you can have global shutter on cameras today if you sacrifice low-light performance and high framerates. You need a CCD sensor instead of a CMOS (generally speaking), like you find e.g. on most cameras in the Canon PowerShot line, which do feature global shutters.

Except the article doesn't say that. It says that the "typical high-end camera shoots about 60 photos per second."

Typical high-end is not exactly state of the art, and the distinction is quite clear.

Are we sure that the Hero5 isn't coming out this year?

Doesn't look like it is confirmed by GoPro, but the rumor that it's being postponed to 2016 has been widely circulated. If GoPro was releasing the Hero5 a month from today, they'd be idiots not to have a press release out denying that rumour.