David Field attends the motion picture industry’s biennial forum to see what the professionals are talking about.

Western Digital has announced its range of 250GB SATA laptop hard drives, and we have the first unit in the country under the microscope.

Why is this external hard drive different from all other external hard drives?

Two TV tuners on a single PCIe board, without the usual headaches and hassle.

Another laptop hard drive series moves toward perpendicular storage.

Broadcast networks extend digital TV to mobile phones and VoIP prepares to hit mobile handsets.

It’s the stills camera that thinks it’s a video camera. A high definition video camera.

PC Authority speaks to Senior Engineer on Google Maps about the extraordinary state of the art in digital maps, content, and navigation. What’s next for Google?

Monster storage; plus a choice of professional SAS or consumer SATA interfaces and reliability to boot.

Dell’s new Inspirons are more about colour and value than performance and excitement.

Read David Field's primer on Full HD before buying a new flat screen.

Easily one of the cheapest 60GB hard drive cameras, but its image quality is cheap too.

One beautiful camera, with one awful flaw.

Although it takes great footage directly to a hard drive, it's being held back by a few problems.

A high end DVD-based camcorder for quick and clean shooting.

David Field goes behind the scenes with a Navteq mapping crew to see new mapping technology in action.

A month's worth of HD news in digest form.

A beautiful image that comes at a terrible recommended retail price.

Format war? What format war?

Follow the HD bit flow from the cinema to your home. We look at the technology, cost and advantages.