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 ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This ...

it'll wear out just as fast as a cdrom drive will. there are different lasers for reading and writing (I'm 75% sure on this one) <BR><BR>oh, and pc world has not been a good source for about the last ...

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 ...

TOKYO – Toshiba Corporation today continued its roll out of next generation HD DVD products with the announcement of the launch of the world’s first notebook PC with an HD DVD-ROM drive. “Qosmio ...