When it comes to computer problems in the office, Murphy's Law often applies – PCs fail when you need them most. If you attempt to install an application from a CD, and the computer does not recognize ...

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

Mac peripheral maker MCE Technologies LLC has released desktop and portable DVD-recordable optical drives. Each drive includes Mac-compatible software for creating video DVDs as well as DVD and CD ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.