HDVideoPro shouts "premiere issue" on its cover, and beckons non-techies with a provocative shot of Tricia Helfer -- the seductive Cylon Number Six on "Battlestar Galactica." This must be the "inspiration" part of the magazine's motto: "A new vision for high-definition technology and inspiration."

There's gadgetry aplenty, and even the entertainment stories get a bit giddy with tech talk, as in "Digital Cinema: Big Movie, Small Camera." If you're not a filmmaker yourself, it's interesting only to a point to learn about shooting with smaller, lighter digital video or high-definition cameras and the freedom it provides in difficult locations. Videotape seems positively quaint when you realize the ability of these cameras to store hours and hours of high-quality footage that's also easy to manipulate in post-production.

Aside from cameras and tripods and such, there's also a Q&A with David Leeson, the Pulitzer-winning Dallas Morning News photographer who's switched to videocasting and a story on online video opportunities "beyond YouTube."

Mostly, though, HDVideoPro is about the new age of moving images, with enough explanations to initiate a neophyte and plenty more for those already in the know.