While CDs were still fighting for market share against cassettes, and gaming consoles were just starting to switch over to CD from cartridge storage, optical media companies were already thinking ...

Sony has announced the reduction of 250 jobs at its optical disc manufacturing plant in Tagaze, Japan, as part of an initiative to completely phase out the production of recordable optical media. All ...

When it comes to DVD players, there are plenty of criteria that you need to look at in order to pick the best ones for a given budget. Because of this, you may end up in the awkward situation of not ...

I have a MacBook Pro and I have an external SuperDrive. I'm trying to get some data off of old DVD-Rs that I burned in college almost 2 decades ago. Well, they've deteriorated a bit. The data in the ...

Toshiba’s Storage Device Division (SDD) has just announced the world’s first slim HD DVD-RW drive, the SD-L912A for mobile PCs. This new drive can read, write and rewrite to HD DVD-RW discs, as well ...

Nowadays, you will find different types of DVDs in the market out of which Dual Layer and Double-Sided DVDs are the most popular ones. Dual-Layer DVDs and Double-sided DVDs offer a massive amount of ...

The Qosmio G45-AV690 is an amazing laptop with it being the first notebook with an HD-DVD R/RW drive being one of the many new features. It's a 17-inch notebook with a 1080p resolution for HD-DVD ...

One of the major requirements for a HTPC is silent operations, and the system noise usually comes from fans and other moving parts in computer such as optical drives. Asus introduced the HR-0205T, the ...

Five free DVD authoring tools that are not only spot on for your spending limit, buy they are also fairly easy to use. There are plenty of reasons you might want/need to put together a DVD. Sure, you ...

Q: I have a Panasonic DMR-EZ48VK recorder that I recently purchased. This is all new to me. I would like to know what disc-type I should buy for recording VCR tapes onto a DVD disc. Also, is there a ...

Now that HD-DVD has imploded, I've been wondering what will happen to the company's highly-rated Qosmio G45, the first laptop in the U.S. to offer an HD-DVD player and recorder. HD-DVD may be a ...