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.

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) ...

From time to time I run into situations where a portable CD/DVD duplicator would be an absolute life saver. Until now, there was no such a thing as a truly portable solution. Fortunately, ILY ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

I have a Western Digital hard drive and a Toshiba DVD-ROM drive that I'm using with my MSI K7T Turbo-R motherboard. Unfortunately, both of these devices refuse to run in DMA (I've already tried ...

DVD-ROM drives are now within NT$1,000 of their CD-ROM counterparts, and the assumption would be that they will eventually replace CD-ROM as the preferred optical storage device in PCs. However, many ...

Even the lowest-end notebooks on the market these days sport DVD-ROM drives, so why shouldn't you just plump for a notebook to meet your portable DVD watching needs? Alex Kidman is a freelance word ...