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 ...

Discover how to utilize an old laptop DVD drive with a USB. Learn to read CDs/DVDs on new PCs using a SATA to USB cable. A ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some old USB gadgets from the 2000s are either making a comeback or are still relevant for many. These are the most useful ...

Hi, I'm looking for 2 different recommendations, one for a DVD burner, the other for a DVD-ROM. <BR><BR>Here's my situation: I think my current DVD burner (Toshiba SDR-5002) is starting to fail and I ...

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 ...

While only the newer Sun systems and higher-end PCs today are equipped with DVD drives, application software is beginning to arrive on DVDs because of the tremendous increase in storage capacity. Your ...

I had a similar experience with a PS2...I dropped it in transport (~2 foot fall, but on a hard floor). The disc tray popped out, and the eject mechanism was completely fouled...wouldn't push it in or ...