Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create backups—especially with modern laptops, which are usually supplied without a drive.

Apple’s silhouette iPod ads have been far more pervasive than anyone probably imagined, and now thanks to an anonymous New Yorker (or, more likely, New Yorkers) armed with a Sharpie the posters have ...

I have this setup to burn and am wondering if the only CDs compatible are the 4 brands listed when generating. On windows 10, I am attempting to burn with CDRTFE and am using an external USB CDRW ...

Philippines' CD-R King, a famous tech retail company that offered almost all kinds of gadgets, seemingly left the public eye during the height of the 2020 COVID pandemic. Still, sources have found one ...

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The first laptop computer to feature an HD DVD-R drive, Toshiba’s Qosmio Q30, went on sale in Japan over the weekend. HD DVD-R is the read-only version of the HD DVD format and a single-sided disc can ...

So I have just bought a lovely new PM G5 1.8 Duel.<BR>In my G4 I upgraded to a Pioneer DVR-108 after the original 'Superdrive' died. This being a duel layer drive I was set up for swapping it into the ...

The good news is, you don't need to be a Linux expert to get these backup procedures to work. The procedures described here are at the simple and specific "what to do" level. Though for those of you ...

Philips has introduced the first PC DVD+R drive that can burn to a double-layer, single-sided disc. The burner, dubbed the DVDRW885K, will record the new 8.5GB discs at a 8x speed. The upshot of all ...

Hey, I'm looking into getting a DVD-R drive soon, but know little about what to get. I'm definitely going to go as cheap as possible (pricewatch), but don't want to buy something that's going to die ...

HANOVER, GERMANY (dpa) – Computers didn’t become genuine multimedia machines until optical drives came along. For a long time now, optical drives have meant one thing: CD-ROMs. In recent years, ...