If your computer doesn’t have a built-in CD reader, you can buy external versions for a few hundred dollars in many online ...

The Nintendo GameCube was the first console from Big N with disc-based media. Gone were the cartridges that were absurdly expensive to manufacture. In theory games could be cheaper (yeah, right), a… ...

If you bought a computer with a disc drive, or an external disc drive, you may be eligible for up to $10 per device. The settlement covers units sold from April 2003 to the end of 2008.

Pioneer went on to introduce the first DVD writer for computer use in 1997, the first DVD recorder as a VCR replacement in 1999, the first DVD/CD writer for home computer users in 2001 and the first ...

How to Make a Backup Disc of Your Computer. No matter how new or safe you believe your computer is, you must keep disaster prevention in mind when working with sensitive data. You should always ...

Though there were a lot of weird and wonderful early home computers, particularly from markets like the USSR and Japan, I’ve ...

Is it The Velvet Underground or Velvet Sundown? The fictitious rock group, Velvet Sundown, which comes complete with ...

What are optical drives? In the simplest terms, an optical drive is the piece of hardware that lets a device read and interact with a disc. These discs can be CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, game discs, and ...

A pair of vulnerabilities found in hardware and software for playing Blu-ray discs might come in handy for secret snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency. Stephen Tomkinson of NCC Group, a U ...

The disc can store 500 gigabytes of data, equivalent to 20 single-layer Blu-ray discs, 100 DVDs or the hard drive for a large desktop computer. A gigabyte is equal to 114 minutes of uncompressed ...