Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

When his parents denied him a Super NES, he got mad. When they traded a prize Sega Genesis for a 2400 baud modem, he got even. Years of Internet shareware, eBay'd possessions and video game testing ...

Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony and Panasonic don’t seem to care. The companies have cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a stunning 3.3TB. That’s a big advance in ...

One of the most interesting parts of the recent Apple Mac Mini and MacBook Air refresh is that Apple is moving away from optical drives. Apple isn't the only company to do so, raising the question "Is ...

Toshiba Corp. has developed a dual-layer rewritable optical disc for use with the blue-laser-based Advanced Optical Disc (AOD) format that it’s developing with NEC Corp. The disc, which will be ...

I got myself a new USB blu-ray drive last week, so now I feel the need to justify my purchase. Hence the following claim: optical discs will remain in use forever. Well, the rest of this century, at ...

Optical discs... Apple hates them, but lots of people still use them. Blu-ray has been a relatively slow starter in the computer world and we will never see that technology in an Apple product.

Round Rock-based Dell Inc. has filed a lawsuit that accuses Hitachi and at least five other companies that make optical disk drives of conspiring to fix prices of their products from 2004 to 2010.

CMC Magnetics is experiencing a surge in demand for high-end optical discs, particularly in the defense and medical sectors, resulting in supply shortages for optical disc drives, according to ...

Could the phrase “burn a disc” soon be interred in the computing graveyard, resting peacefully alongside 8-bit graphics and the chirping, buzzing hum of a dial-up modem? Some technology analysts, ...