Watching this well-wrapped camera operator and their equally well-wrapped camera get doused in a torrent of red liquid, you realise that the latest behind the scenes video for Star Wars Episode 8 shows that it's going to be all about the large scale practical effects.

In a couple of hours Season 7 of Game of Thrones will debut and we'll start getting some inkling into the fate of Westeros as, after seven years of foretelling, Winter arrives with a vengeance. We'll also get to see some of the best VFX work this side of a major cinema blockbuster.

While the ability for Millennial culture to embrace retro aesthetics seemingly knows no bounds, it might struggle to be quite so enthusiastic about recreating some of the limitations that pre-digital technology imposed.

A couple of hours after Hydrogen’s announcement, RED head honcho, Jim Jannard, took to his habitual REDUser platform to fill in some rather interesting details.

If you want a dramatic illustration of how much the industry has changed over the past few years, the free version of Avid Media Composer is as good a starting point as any.

There’s not much to excite in the way of video, to be honest, but Canon’s two new DSLRs, the EOS 6D MarkII and EOS Rebel SL2, both widen the company’s entry-level line-up and introduce innovations of their own.

RED has always been a company that likes to play its marketing cards close to its chest, but it's latest announcement has unleashed a greater than normal torrent of speculation. Why? Because this mysterious post to the RED User forum came from none other than Jim Jannard himself.

While 360-degree video and VR wait to set the consumer market on fire, software companies are positioning themselves for the uptick, with Adobe’s acquisition of Mettle’s SkyBox tools the latest move.

One of the great holy grails of modern TV has just had an impressively large rollout as Netflix has uploaded its first interactive TV episode to its servers.

One of the main talking points of the new Canon EOS C200, apart from its price, has been the new Cinema RAW Light format. New Canon documents have shed some light on its details.

Canon’s latest entrant in the Cinema EOS range, the £7699/€9229 4K compact EOS C200, has both the spec and the price point to be a serious competitor in the mid-range market when it ships in July.

When it was first announced last year, the 8.6kg (19lb) Acer Predator 21 X laptop caused surprise and astonishment. Now you can buy one of the 21-inch monsters and be surprised and astonished, not to mention $9000 poorer, in your own home.