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Toshiba said it will start making a new, 200 GB SATA II 2.5-inch hard disk drive in August. The company claims the new disk stands as a breakthrough in hard-drive technology, cramming 179 gigabits into each square inch. The enabling technologies? Perpindicular magnet recording, bolstered by something Toshiba calls tunnel magneto-resistive recording. SHOULD YOU CARE? YES. Besides the obvious benefit a drive like this would give you in, say, an editorial laptop, it could also be an invaluable tool in the field, where many users already know that lightweight, high-capacity disk drives can be a great replacement for tapes and other storage options. (150 MB/sec is pretty good bandwidth.) It's also a signpost on the road to less expensive, more robust mobile-media platforms that may (or may not) have a dramatic impact on the industry.

Is a new DV short directed by David Lynch actually a preview of his upcoming feature, Inland Empire? The clip is part of a DVD distributed by Digidesign called Room to Dream: David Lynch and the Independent Fimmaker that looks at David Lynch's methodology for digital audio and video. The title was apparently inspired by comments he made to Daily Variety last year: "I started working in DV for my Web site, and I fell in love with the medium .... For me, there's no way back to film. I'm done with it .... Some would say it looks bad. But it reminds me of early 35mm, that didn't have that tight grain. When you have a poor image, there's lots more room to dream." You can visit the Digidesign Web site to order a copy of the DVD (it's free!), or you can watch the clip online through the magic of YouTube.

Talk about your multi-format projects -- An Inconvenient Truth has so many visual personalities it's dizzying. The core of the film is Al Gore's traveling presentation on global warming, which was captured during a four-camera HDCAM shoot, broken up with short interstitial documentary pieces on a panoply of different formats, from Super 8 and 16mm to HDV and MiniDV. We asked Guggenheim and editor Dan Swietlik to talk about pulling the project together.