Most modern computers no longer come with optical disc readers like CD or DVD drives, but the market for external CD/DVD ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optical disc drive on a modern laptop computer. Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information ...

New reports from Digital Foundry say that Microsoft may be having a difficult time securing the optical disc drives required ...

Optical disc devotees continue to find safe ports and harbors in Japan, with the release of the new FMV Note A laptop line (machine translation). This laptop range fuses modern features like a Windows ...

As Sony and Microsoft prepare for next‑gen hardware, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that either company will be able to ...

However, two separate major outlets have reported that the disc drive situation is getting more difficult in general, as ...

An optical disk is an electronic data storage medium that can be written to and read from using a low-powered laser beam. Most of today's optical disks are available in three formats: compact disks ...

RPCS3 can now launch PS3 games directly from compatible Blu-ray drives on Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD. A full game dump ...

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 ...

KAWASAKI, Japan — Engineers at NEC Corp. have developed a prototype optical disc drive that supports the new HD-DVD format and is also compatible with CD and DVD formats, they said Wednesday. The ...