l'll stick to my opinion that cheap and cheerful low end MF is coming.
probably and Edmund that's been your stance ever since you feel you got burned by Phase, but remember there is no free lunch.
A smaller almost medium format camera for less, sure, it'll happen now that Sony has made the generic sensor, but will it work professionally, tether, have lens sets that are affordable, large buffer, software suites, bright viewfinders that you can manually and autofocus . . . the list goes on.
Cheap is easy. Cheap and professional is hard.
AJA and Blackmagic have lowered the entry costs of digital cinema . . . especially AJA but when you add the numbers, take the chance that out of the box it's going to be right, then look around at what's available on the refurb, demo market you realize the entry costs are already pretty low.
Check out the prices of a refurb or dealer backed h4d40, or a Leica S2, IQ 40 mpx camera and at the end of the day, it's probably the same price as the Pentax with a lot more options in rental and the buy the lens used market.
IMO
BC