An Apple SuperDrive is an optical drive that is connected to a computer ... if your PC has no inbuilt DVD player. Apple SuperDrive may not work on Windows PC due to driver issues, poor USB ...

But fear not, data hoarders. Two companies have stepped up to reassure the Japanese market that they'll keep producing high-quality optical media: Verbatim and I-O Data.

(2) A stand-alone DVD player for TV viewing that ... can record onto an unlimited number of optical media. A DVR, on the other hand, has a built-in hard drive with a limited amount of storage ...

In turn, there are now a lot of optical drives sitting unused in parts bins ... This build requires two DVD pickups. By scanning once horizontally and once vertically and measuring the returning ...

Choosing an optical drive really comes down to what you want to use it for, I would find far more use out of a Blu-Ray or 4K DVD player than something like the SuperDrive, but that, in essence ...

As prices of writeable media and drives dropped ... The other remaining major player is Ritek. Both companies produce various lines of CD-Rs, DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs, and BD-Rs and BD-REs.