Hitachi is the first to market with a Terabyte hard disk drive, the Deskstar 7K1000. The drive will be shown at the 2007 CES in Las Vegas.

“According to Hitachi, the drive ships in the first quarter of 2007, and will cost $399–less than the price of two individual 500GB hard drives today.

The company also plans to offer a CinemaStar version of the drive, for use in DVR and set-top boxes, as well as an enterprise version with a certified mean time between failure rating. Both of those versions are expected in the second quarter of this year.”

*begins slow clap* This is a Good Thing, folks.

If your the type of person that doesn’t know a cucoloris from a crank-o-vator, maybe it’s time for you to devote some serious study time to the Filmmakers Griptionary. It contains all the common (and not-so-common) definitions of terminology and equipment slang you might hear around a production set. There will be a test, so start cramming!

Adobe Systems announced today that the next version of Adobe Production Studio will be available for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms.

Film, video and web professionals currently using Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator on the Mac will soon be able to harness the power of completely new Macintosh releases of Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore DVD and Adobe Soundbooth — all key components of an upcoming milestone revision to Adobe Production Studio. The software will have its first public demonstration during the Macworld 2007 Conference and Exhibition at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, January 9 - 12 (Booth 901). The next release of Adobe Production Studio is expected to ship in mid-2007.

Thanks for the heads-up Dan!

In an unanticipated move, Jim Jannard president of Red Cinema One, announced this afternoon that Red will reopen reservations for RED for three days this January. On January 21-24th you will have one last opportunity to place a reservation for the coveted RedOne. So if you drug your feet the first time around now is the time to act. If you are unaware ground zero for the Red team has been moved from dvxuser to reduser.net Apparently reservations will be able to be placed via the Red.com website when reservations re-open.