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) ...

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 ...

... that they stop working (this may vary, i.e. it may be only partially or fully) after no more than two or three years of usage ??<BR><BR><BR>You see, first I had a ...

While CDs were still fighting for market share against cassettes, and gaming consoles were just starting to switch over to CD from cartridge storage, optical media companies were already thinking ...

the toshibas are just as good as the plextors - and they are better for reading subchannel data (copying cds w/ clonecd)<BR>that and if i remember the prices is saw last for the drives - the pioneer ...

Waiting for the arrival of DVD-ROM, the supposed successor to the familiar CD-ROM, is a lot like waiting for a bus that never arrives. It’s probably going too far to refer to DVD-ROM as “vaporware,” a ...

Sonic Solutions announced sales of its desktop DVD publishing software had topped 500,000 units--double the amount from four months earlier. But the company did not disclose how many copies had been ...

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 ...