Sony has taught its new notebooks to read and write. On Wednesday, Sony Electronics announced four new Vaio notebooks that come with a combination DVD and CD-rewritable drive. Sony is the latest PC ...

Sony will close its once-proud optical PC drive subsidiary by early next year, as part of its efforts to refocus on the connected world of smartphones, tablets and netbooks, a spokesman said Tuesday.

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 ...

Sony Electronics today unveiled next-generation dual format DVD/CD recordable drives, featuring three designs that deliver the industry’s fastest recording speeds. The 840 series of drives is Sony’s ...

Sony Optiarc America today unveiled two new optical disc drives — the new portable, slim external DVD/CD recordable drive and the second generation half height internal 24X DVD/CD recordable drive.

What makes the Double Layer and Dual Layer recordable DVD formats unique is that both allow two layers of data to be sandwiched atop each other on each side of a disc, allowing for a total capacity of ...

Sony Electronics is expanding into new markets with its recordable DVD products. The company is demonstrating Blu-ray drives and media for professional use as well as new multiformat DVD drives with ...

The PS5 refuses to play standard CDs by design. But with a unique optical drive and a clever trick, a YouTuber managed to ...

"The optical drive is one of the components going into a computer that has moving parts. Most of the systems we do we offer with a five-year warranty, so as you can imagine the chances for an optical ...

TOKYO — Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. signed Thursday (Nov. 17) a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that they would establish a joint venture company in the optical disk drive business, aiming to be the ...

Despite the Apple hoopla from earlier today, Sony managed to unveil three ultra fast DVD/CD drives. The DRU-840A, DRX-840U and DRX-S70U certainly won’t make you the talk of the town, but they do boast ...