Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create backups—especially with modern laptops, which are usually supplied without a drive.

Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether for playing old DVDs, installing ancient software from CDs, or burning data ...

So I've got this CD-R Drive, it broke. <P>I just pulled it back out hoping a firmware upgrade would fix it, but that didn't work.<P>It is detected correctly by the BIOS and in Windows (XP), it'll ...

QPS Inc. today announced that it’s shipping quantities of its newest Que!Fire drive, the 16x10x40 CD-RW. It’s a FireWire-based CD burner that retails for US$399. The new drive is capable of burning CD ...

With word that Pioneer New Media Technologies Inc. will be shipping initial orders of its Pioneer DVR-103 recordable DVD/CD drive by the end of February, manufacturing and distribution experts believe ...

I remember spending hundreds of dollars for a slow-ass 2x CD-R drive years ago. Coasters were made more often that useable discs. It took half an hour to burn a disc, but on-the-fly MP3 to CDDA wasn't ...

CD burners have made it possible to combine the best of Bach and Destiny's Child on the same compact disc -- prompting grand scale consumption of CD-recorder drives by computer owners new and old. But ...

Unlike CD-R drive makers, Taiwanese CD-RW drive manufacturers have not seen similar growth in their business. Lite-On IT is confident its shipments will increase strongly in the second half of this ...