Optical drives used to be a common feature on desktops and laptops, but have been noticeably absent on new computers, ...

Which method of storing your movie collection is likely to last longer, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs or hard drives? Here's our ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Apple has always been eager to dump technologies when the company feels they have outlived their usefulness. The original iMac came without a floppy drive. The iPhone 7 came without a headphone jack.

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 ...

The Cupertino-based computer maker now offers the SuperDrive, made by Pioneer Electronics, in its Power Mac G4 and iMac G4 desktops. Pioneer accounted for about 60 percent of the 628,000 DVD ...

Apple's DVD Player will only work with internal DVD drives and will give an error -70012 if you open it with only an external DVD drive attached. Topher Kessler ...

I was checking some things in my audio settings, and wanted to make sure my DVD/CD drive was configured correctly for digital audio, etc.. For some reason, in Windows Explorer, this drive is listed as ...