Hey all, the PC I bought this year has no provision for an optical drive. If I wanted to install, say, Freelancer (of which I have the disc) that cannot simply be bought from GOG or any digital ...

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The drive arrived yesterday during the final hours of 2021, and I already learned a few things. First off, the DVD region thing is true: although the Mac DVD Player app will complain about out of ...

Hitachi-LG Data Storage has agreed to plead guilty in connection with rigging bids and fixing prices for sales of optical disc drives and will pay a US$21.1 million fine, the U.S. Department of ...

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.

This here survey may have been conducted by GfK across the pond, but we'd be willing to wager the results are actually indicative of most major developed markets. Baseless assumptions aside, the facts ...

Plextor Announces New Lineup of Optical Drives with PlexUTILITIES Advanced Application & Diagnostic Software Plextor, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment, ...

So I just picked up a cheap USB DVD-RW drive to make the process of installing operating systems and other software on optical disc-less liliputers a bit easier. And when I took it out of the box, I ...

(Laptoplogic) - The Qosmio G40/97E and F40/88EBL notebook PC models from Toshiba are incorporated with rewritable HD DVD-RW drive. Two terrestrial HDTV tuners are also bundled with the system. In ...

Toshiba has upgraded its 17-inch Qosmio G40 laptop and its smaller brother, the 15-inch F40. The two laptops, the G40/97E and the smaller F40/88EBL now sport HD DVD-RW drives as opposed to HD DVD-R, ...

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 ...

Tokyo — Toshiba has introduced a slim-line HD DVD-RW drive for the notebook market. The SD-L912A will ship in sample quantities to manufacturers next month. Pricing was not given. The drive can write ...