Do you still need a disc drive for your laptop in 2026? New ones are increasingly difficult to find, but these popular older ...

While many people have tried to cut down on owning physical media, there are many who prefer physical media over streaming ...

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 ...

Which external DVD drive is best? Internal disc drives have become less common in both desktop and laptop computers, which has given rise to another product: the external DVD drive. External DVD ...

Two vendors that have a strong play in this niche are Sony and Plextor with their DRX-810UL and PX-740UF DVDR/RW drives, respectively. Both external optical drives contain similar technology and ...

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, ...

More than half of Sony Electronics' recently released rewritable DVD drives can't record to low-quality media, the consumer-electronics giant confirmed Wednesday, but the company has made a fix ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard will offer frustrated customers who own its first DVD-rewritable drive a chance to trade it in for a model that will support record-once DVD discs--but it will cost $99. The company ...

For many years now a source for some of the smallest and cheapest home made CNC mechanisms has been the seemingly never-ending supply of surplus CD and DVD-ROM drives. The linear actuator that moves ...

I've been a Plextor fan forever, and I've got an old rig I use just for burning where the drive I use for extracting (an UltraPlex 40X SCSI CD-ROM) seems to have finally died.<BR><BR>(I've updated the ...