If you bought a computer with a DVD drive (or a standalone DVD drive for a computer, including external ones) between April 1, 2003 and December 31, 2008, you're eligible to receive $10 for each ...

"Optical drives require motors to spin the disc, and this uses more battery," Mushell said. "Companies are taking out motorized drives to improve battery life." App stores are contributing to the ...

Pioneer's newest optical disc drive does more than just play Blu-rays, but will be able to burn large capacity discs as well. According to its Japanese website (via Tom's Hardware), the BDR-213JBK ...

The Taiwanese rumor-mongers at DigiTimes are reporting that the next-generation MacBook Pro laptops may be thinner than ever. Apple is reportedly able to shave a few milometers off the MacBook ...

One of the things that’s set netbooks apart from fuller featured computers from day one is that most netbooks don’t have optical disc drives. They take up a lot of space, cost money, and add ...

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 ...

You can get a 50 pack of blank DVDs for $16 on Amazon, or about 30 cents per blank DVD disc. Be sure to pick up an optical drive capable of burning discs if you’re planning on going that route.

If you just need a simple drive to install a program from a CD-ROM, you can buy an external CD/DVD drive for around $20 from Amazon. Any external optical drive you buy will plug into a USB port on ...

Step back to the early CD-ROM era, though, and things were a little kookier. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, drives hit the market that required the use of a bulky plastic caddy to load discs.

Released in 2020, the PS5 Digital Edition was the first Sony console to launch without an optical disc drive. The discless ...

Sony Patents a Detachable Optical Disc Drive, For the PS5? A new disc driver patent from Sony might be lending credence to a rumor about a detachable disc drive for the next Playstation 5 version.