After years of backing only one format in the recordable DVD format war, the computer maker adds limited support of a rival format into its operating system. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried ...

CDs are inexpensive, small and lightweight. This makes them easy to store, carry around and mail. They're also user-friendly. Today, many different kinds of audio-visual data are stored and sold on ...

Sony has unveiled today four new Multi-format DVD/CD rewritable drives based on its 12th generation optical storage technology. This line-up features three designs and four configurations. Hailing it ...

If you’ve been shooting digital pictures for a year or two, chances are you’re starting to look at some way to store them that doesn’t occupy large amounts of the hard disk on your PC. Currently, the ...

Kano Technologies on Monday introduced its K8Xtreme, a dual-format DVD+RW/R and DVD-RW/R drive. Kano claims the new 8x drive is the only one on the market that can record at 8x speed onto Verbatim 4x ...

The BenQ DW1620 provides a lot of value for the money. Its dual-16X support, flexible software bundle, ability to accommodate problematic media, and blindingly fast DVD-ripping speed make it a worthy ...

A large group of users are reporting that the CD-RW drives included with some of the newly shipping 2002 iBook models (officially referred to by Apple as the Opaque iBook 16 VRAM, and iBook 32 VRAM) ...

Apple has finally started putting internal CD-RW drives in its new systems, but that’s of little comfort to those who own earlier Macs. If you long for the unlimited capacity, quick file sharing, and ...

CD-Audio and CD-ROM were established in the early 1980s as the "new thing" to replace the venerable analog long-playing record. This digital format was very quickly accepted as the standard because it ...

The final Sony Mini Disc players are to go on sale in March after the company halted production on the format it invented twenty years ago Reaction to the news that Sony's last ever MiniDisc players ...