Tokyo – Toshiba Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have agreed to combine their optical-disk-drive businesses into a joint venture company. The agreement covers CD and DVD drives for computers and ...

Toshiba Corp. has developed a dual-layer rewritable optical disc for use with the blue-laser-based Advanced Optical Disc (AOD) format that it’s developing with NEC Corp. The disc, which will be ...

I'm sick and tired of loudy, whiny optical drives! I need something quieter than the Sony 16x (rebadge Lite-On, I believe) that I have in my system now. On short bursts, it whines terribly.<BR><BR>I ...

LAS VEGAS — Pioneer Electronics and Toshiba Corp. unveiled optical disk players at the Consumer Electronics show here Wednesday (Jan. 4) as the battle for control of the advanced optical disk market ...