Our first toe in the water with 4K Blu-ray is also a first in its own right: 2008's Iron Man. It's the movie that kickstarted ...

The CD-ROM and CD-R (recordable CD) playback compatibility is in great demand for DVD-ROM disc drive devices. The authors developed a new optical mechanism that utilizes a holographic optical element ...

An external optical drive lets you watch, rip, and burn DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Our favorites are fast, quiet, and reliable.

Four discs is a lot, and it echoes the release of the first Baldur's Gate game, which launched on five CD-ROM discs back in 1998.

Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have come up with an optical storage device that has the same shape and size as a DVD or Blu-Ray disc — but can hold a ...

Researchers from China have developed a new type of disc that can hold up to a petabyte of data, the equivalent of more than 220,000 regular DVD discs, ...

Since the PS2’s blue CD-ROM discs were phased out in favour of DVD-ROM and subsequently Blu-Ray, we haven’t seen any cool looking discs like those ever since, which is a real shame.

The CD or DVD ROM attached to a computer is also assigned a letter and appears as a drive in My Computer and all other areas of Windows Explorer. However, in some cases, the CD or DVD drive may ...

Q: Will not boot from the CD/DVD disc created. A: Try burning it to a DVD instead if you created a CD, and vice versa. Also you can try different kinds of discs, or burning at a slower speed. Finally ...