We love that modern laptops have become so slim and light, but we aren’t happy about the disappearance of ports and features.

The best laptops with CD and DVD drives are rapidly encroaching on extinction. Trust me. During my tenure as a laptop reviewer, I haven't seen a single laptop with one! Now that everything can be ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...