Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...

The best laptops with CD and DVD drives are rapidly encroaching on extinction. Trust me. During my tenure as a laptop reviewer, I haven't seen a single laptop with one! Now that everything can be ...

Perhaps it's a trick of memory, but it seems like old media formats simply evaporate once we move on to the next big thing. The recording industry sold 4.4 billion dollars worth of 8-track tapes in ...

Sony has been dealing with LCDs for years. Liquid crystal displays abound in their phones, PDAs, computers and TVs. Now Sony is embracing another kind of LCD: lowest common denominator. Instead of ...

Answer: A good question, since, you know, DVDs and CDs are the same bloody size. There are a few reasons for the different dimensions of packaging - one traditional, one practical. When video stores ...

Despite the default limitation of only being able to use shared DVDs and CDs on Macs that ship without an optical drive, you can enable shared optical drive use on other Macs. Topher, an avid Mac user ...

Roxio is the software maker behind one of the best selling digital media software programs in the world. The company released the latest iteration of the program in February, dubbed Easy CD & DVD ...

These days, a movie night usually involves cuddling up on the couch, turning on Netflix, and picking another rom-com movie from its list of never-ending shows. However, before the age of streaming ...