Video-on-demand servers running smoothly.

High-capacity desktop drives have never been so affordable. Darien Graham-Smith puts 23 to the test to find the best

Blu-ray and HD DVD players will come out fighting this year. We reveal which format is best placed to be DVD’s successor.

If your PC is lacking storage space then give it some extra room with these four internal hard disks.

Dan Chiappini delves into multimedia jargon in our monthly tech term glossary.

Hitachi DZ-MV100E

An adequate Media Centre PC, but Asus’ competitor blows it out of the water.

Microsoft has four key 'visions' for Pocket PC 2003 (PPC 2003): make it easier for manufacturers to innovate, improve the 'wireless experience', bring easy instant messaging to the PDA, and expand the 'media experience'.

There are almost as many acronyms for the various standards of DVD as there are companies involved in DVD development.

The ubiquitous micro-hard drive has found its way into a PDA. palmOne yesterday announced the LifeDrive, a PDA with basic features, a large 320x480 colour screen and a 4GB Hitachi hard drive.

Hitachi DZ-MV100A

HITACHI DZ-MV208E

The tools for home movie-making have become far more accessible and functionally more versatile. While truly broadcast-quality images are still the domain of 'prosumer' and professional video cameras

8cm Blu-ray BD-R write-once and BD-RE rewritable discs due in September.

Buying a digital video camera is a tough task, but you’ll be well prepared with our comprehensive guide.

The future, they say, is based on the Internet and mobile computing.

Seriously powerful mobile gaming grunt with all the bling, from Dell. Yep, Dell.

Offering 40GB of storage, the Iomega drive is very small for its capacity, measuring a mere 8.89 x 7.37 x 1.27cm. It weighs just over 99 grams, which means it's unnoticeable in your pocket. The internal drive is a 40GB Hitachi TravelStar C4K40 -- a new form-factor hard drive, measuring a mere 1.8 inches across (a normal notebook hard drive is 2.5in, a desktop drive 3.5) -- and only about 7mm thick.

While hard disk drive speed is commonly one of the last considerations when putting together a new machine, its importance is more than just a place to store your files and operating system.