We love that modern laptops have become so slim and light, but we aren’t happy about the disappearance of ports and features.

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...

A Sony Interactive Entertainment patent that’s been recently made public might have potentially confirmed rumors that a new version of the Playstation 5 would launch with a detachable disc drive ...

If all you plan to do with your netbook is surf the web, check your email, and maybe enjoy some downloaded music and movies, you might not even notice the missing disc drive. But if you want to ...

One of the most interesting parts of the recent Apple Mac Mini and MacBook Air refresh is that Apple is moving away from optical drives. Apple isn't the only company to do so, raising the question "Is ...

Samsung recently touted its latest 3-in-1 TFT monitors, 4-in-1 optical disc drive and affordable laser printers, which the company is targeting towards small businesses and tech buffs. The 3-in-1 15″ ...

The scientists increased the capacity by leaps and bounds using an optical disc with a 3D planar recording architecture, which uses a highly transparent, uniform photoresist film doped with ...

Against the flow of time and reason, Pioneer has launched a brand new optical disc drive. Pioneer's newest optical disc drive does more than just play Blu-rays, but will be able to burn large capacity ...

One truism about computer hardware is that, once purchased, it immediately starts falling behind the leading edge of the technology curve. Consider the Dual-2.0GHz Power Mac G5 I purchased in ...

Hey all. The optical drive on my unibody mbp has recently decided to refuse to suck in discs. I'm not really familiar with how the inner mechanism works, but it doesn't even try to pull the disc in ...

Microsoft may be looking to abandon optical discs for its next Xbox gaming console, but will still put games on physical media in the form of flash storage, according to a new rumor. The next Xbox ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible violations of antitrust law in the optical disc drive industry, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. Spokeswoman Gina Talamona ...