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

Every three years or so I build myself a new PC, but the last time I did, an internal DVD drive was not part of the spec. I simply don't use discs enough to warrant one. Instead, I got an external USB ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support all the DVD and CD formats. The speeds of the drives are rated by their DVD-ROM and CD-ROM transfer rates. The original DVD drive (1x) ...

Music, movies, and books have gone from physical objects to digital files over the past 10 years, and computer designs have changed with the times. A lot of computers — laptops, all-in-ones, and ...

Wondering whether to buy an Apple SuperDrive to go with your Mac? Discover what you can do with an Apple CD and DVD burner - and whether you really need one The last Apple Mac to ship with an optical ...

If you're a sucker for retro technology but need to upgrade to keep up with the times, you might want to invest in a laptop DVD player. Over the last several years, the era of the built-in optical ...

Some docks and adapters allow the SuperDrive to work, but it might be cheaper to just buy an up-to-date CD/DVD drive. Apple ditched the optical drive from most Macs about a decade ago—far before many ...

One of the primary limitations of using Generation 2 VMs is that those VMs don't support the use of a physical DVD drive. As such, any virtualization administrator who wants to leverage DVD media must ...