The Plextor PX-810SA DVD Super Multi Drive is a great performing CD/DVD burner. Its SATA connection opens up bandwidth to allow greater data throughput than EIDE/ATA. It doesn't support HD burning ...

While CDs were still fighting for market share against cassettes, and gaming consoles were just starting to switch over to CD from cartridge storage, optical media companies were already thinking ...

Reader Jeffrey Boyd has some old discs that he’d like to use in a new Mac. He writes: I have a few DVD-RAM discs left over from an older Mac that had a DVD-RAM-compatible burner. The discs are ...

Last year, we expected DVD+R/RW burners to overtake the competition and thought that the establishment of a single standard would be critical for rapid adoption. We were half right: DVD+R/RW drives ...

Panasonic made the push for DVD-RAM and DVD-R with the introduction of two new recordable decks, a new DVD camcorder, a DVD multidrive and aggressively priced blank DVD-RAM media during PC-Expo, here.

Software Architects, a supplier of disk drive utilities that use the Universal Disk Format (UDF), has released DVD-RAM TuneUp! 3.2 for the Mac. The new version — a combination of two products, DVD-RAM ...

(1) A recordable or rewritable DVD drive that is connected to the computer. It may be an internal or external device. See DVD drives, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD+RW. (2) A stand-alone DVD player for ...