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) ...

“Samsung’s new BD combo drives can read BD discs, and read and write CD/DVD discs, providing consumers with a broad choice of HD movie sources on their computers.” With Samsung’s Cyberlink Trutheater ...

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 ...

Besides their new DVD-R/CD-RW drive, LaCie is also introducing two other new devices — a 24x10x40x CD-RW drive and combination DVD-RAM/R drive — at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters ...

A reader has found that removing the optical media drive from the media bay of his PowerBook G3 ("Lombard") fixes an ongoing problem he has had with the kernel saturating the CPU. Tim Cartwright ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Take a moment to consider that next CD or DVD-ROM drive upgrade. If you thought it could damage your PC - or even your person - would ...

John Gumbs asked the Answer Line forum why you can only change a DVD drive’s region a limited number of times. Because that’s the way the Hollywood studios want it. They like to control how their ...

DVD-ROM drives are now within NT$1,000 of their CD-ROM counterparts, and the assumption would be that they will eventually replace CD-ROM as the preferred optical storage device in PCs. However, many ...

Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface (ATAPI) is a packet-type command connection interface developed to enable connection of CD-ROM drives, DVD drives, etc. to the IDE controller, which was ...

If you’re facing problems while burning some files to CD/DVD on Windows 11/10 OS, then this post might help you. You might be receiving the error There was a ...