Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

I've found that quality only dictates the speed at which you can reliably burn them. I bought some el-cheapo CD-Rs, and while they're spec'ed to burn at 12X (yea, right) I found that I could get ...

The Mac compatible Lucid 8x8x24x Portable FireWire CD-RW Drive sports the slimmest dimensions and lightest weight of any FireWire CDRW drive on the market today, according to MCE Technologies, the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Pinnacle Systems has acquired VOB Computersysteme, a privately held company based in Dortmund, ...

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.

CD-Audio and CD-ROM were established in the early 1980s as the "new thing" to replace the venerable analog long-playing record. This digital format was very quickly accepted as the standard because it ...

I love physical media, you love physical media. Physical media is awesome, and generally just better than digital streaming or downloads, if a little bit less convenient. However, being physical items ...

MCE Technologies has a new 16x version of their Lucid Portable FireWire CD-RW Drive. The Lucid-16 16x10x24x Portable FireWire CD-RW Drive is compatible with all FireWire equipped Macs, as well as ...

While not nearly as intriguing as ASUS' recent tie-up with Garmin, the outfit's newest external optical drive is still a looker. The stylish External Slim SDRW-08D1S-U measures in at just 6.1- x 5.5- ...

Portable CD players are just so retro, that is, until you slap in some new tricks like an SD card for line-in recording or MP3 playback. Affectionately dubbed the "i.μ's" (Eye Muse), the HMR-1 ...

The one of the right is totally destroyed, while the one on the left is still playable. Why? Commercially reproduced CDs — the kind from major music labels — are manufactured using a physical stamping ...