Pioneer Electronics is aiming to reduce confusion in the DVD rewritable market by incorporating support for several major formats with its next-generation drive. The Long Beach, Calif.-based ...

We love that modern laptops have become so slim and light, but we aren’t happy about the disappearance of ports and features. It’s been forever since I’ve seen a laptop with an optical disc drive! If ...

Last year, we expected DVD+R/RW burners to overtake the competition and thought that the establishment of a single standard would be critical for rapid adoption. We were half right: DVD+R/RW drives ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support all the DVD and CD formats. The speeds of the drives are rated by their DVD-ROM and CD-ROM transfer rates. The original DVD drive (1x) ...

Readers offer their best tips for efficiently using your computer's drive bays, getting better sound quality out of an iPad, and saving yourself some closet space. Every day we receive boatloads of ...

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

If you own a MacBook Air or a newer MacBook Pro that doesn’t include a disc drive, here are the best external DVD drives for your MacBook. Not everyone needs a disc drive, which is probably why Apple ...

Apple’s digital-hub strategy has made the DVD burner — with its ability to play movies, back up more than 4.5GB of data, and create movies that your friends can play on their home DVD players — a ...

One of the first things I did when i bought my MBP last year was to remove the DVD drive and put an OptiBay in its place. I put the drive into the free USB enclosure, and I haven't used it since.

The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs. The DVD-writer dvd100i, ...

June 28, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Step One: Buy an External DVD Drive—They're Cheap! Okay, this may seem a little obvious, but the first thing ...

Raymond Chen has let slip that Windows Vista will be somewhat choosey with regards to which DVD drives it supports. Chen, who has worked on Windows development since joining Microsoft in 1992 and ...