Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create backups—especially with modern laptops, which are usually supplied without a drive.

90s Kids will remember CD-R King as the go-to place for buying recordable media like CD-Rs for cheap. CD-R King evolved further in the 2000s and early 2010s in offering a variety of products that ...

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So first I downloaded and burned the All PS2 Slims - English language.iso file onto a DVD-R using UltraISO on 1x, but once I popped the DVD in on the browse page, it ...

A new article says that the Xbox One can play content that has been burned on DVD-R discs but not on recordable Blu-Ray (BD-R) disc mediums, which leaves out legitimate content burned on those discs.

Festival Profile: Sections include World Cinema, American Independents, Arts in Film, EcoCinema, Music in Film, Food on Film and Cinema of Conscience Special Events: Seminars and Symposia on film and ...

I have this love/hate relationship with format wars. No, it’s not reality television versus talk shows, or Top 40 radio against “the best of the ’80s—and more!” The wars I’m thinking about pit ...

Fed by consumer magazine cover stories and the blogo-sphere, the drums of war are thundering over two high-definition DVD formats – HD DVD and Blu-ray. VHS destroyed Betamax three decades ago, leaving ...

Pioneer has strongly denied that its still-distant third-generation high-def Blu-ray Disc DVD burner, the BDR-103, will be a combi model that's also able to write to HD DVD. According to Pioneer, ...

That’ll teach me to wonder. The other week I was mentioning that while we’ve seen a few Blu-Ray burners pop into the public eye, the opposing camp of HD DVD has been rather short in the writing ...

LAS VEGAS — Toshiba Corp. announced it will sell a standalone HD-DVD drive for $1,000 in the fourth quarter of the year. The long awaited announcement by one of the leading promoters of the HD-DVD ...