Back in September 2002, Sony announced the first multi-format DVD drive, the DRU-500A. Less than a year later, TDK, Verbatim and Pioneer are bringing to market new multi-format drives with support for ...

Mention “DVDs” and most people immediately think of their movie collections. But beyond movies and videos, DVD technology offers reams of data storage for PCs — a solid method to archive, back up and ...

For those of you that have jumped on the Ultrabook or MacBook Pro bandwagon like myself, you know as well as I do that optical drives come at a premium. When I first purchased my Macbook Pro, the ...

Samsung introduced the SH-222AB internal DVD writer with fast Lead-In that considerably reduces disc recognition time during start-up. With SAMSUNG's new DVD writers, consumers will get ultra quick ...

TOKYO — Toshiba announced the world’s first slim HD DVD drive for notebook PCs that can read and write to HD DVD, standard DVD and CD discs. Sample shipments of the new drive, SD-L902A, are scheduled ...

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It's a problem faced by far too many netbook buyers these days: what do you do when you need access to an optical disc? The vast majority of 8", 9" and 10" netbooks arrive today without an optical ...

Hey newbie here...I'm currently putting a systems together and the last thing I need to buy/install is the dvd burner but I am honestly stumped as to what to get. I plan on making backups of my DVDs ...

Samsung have, for the moment at least, taken the title of "industry's fastest DVD burner" with their Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 drive. Capable of writing to all DVD formats, the SH-S223 burns at 22x ...

Samsung has announced a new portable DVD writer designed for users of ultraportable and notebook computers that don't have internal DVD drives. The new Samsung portable DVD writer is called the ...

It used to be the case that the fastest optical drive was, by default, the best. Reducing CD burn times from 12 minutes to eight and then to six was considered significant evolutionary progress. But ...

Are you failing at burning DVDs and seeing the error code 0xc0aa0301 while trying to burn a DVD on your Windows PC using the DVD writer? If so, then this post will ...