Physical media, including vinyls, cassettes, and CDs are all the rage right now. If you're looking to dust off your collection of DVDs and put them to use in your Windows PC, getting them playing is ...

Most modern laptops lack an optical drive, yet CDs and DVDs are still used in many households, whether for playing old movies, installing older software, or even for making physical backups. An ...

Does your laptop even have a DVD drive anymore? Mine sure doesn’t. Neither did the one I owned before. So, what can you do when you actually have to use a DVD or CD? Well, you can grab an Amicool ...

The proliferation of streaming services for music, movies, and TV shows might make a DVD drive on a laptop seem superfluous. But anyone with a sluggish internet connection or strict data caps can ...

Apple was one of the first manufacturers to exclude DVD players from its laptops, and the same quickly became true for iMacs as well. This meant that if you wanted to rip CDs for your iTunes library, ...

Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create backups—especially with modern laptops, which are usually supplied without a drive.

I am about to buy a WD TV Live hub to replace my aging D-Link DSM520 as our living room media player. It'll be hooked up via network to the WHS so I'll be able to play all my video files from that, ...

DVD drives might be a vanishing species, but they are not yet completely extinct. New desktop PCs often include a DVD drive, as do older PCs that have been upgraded to Windows 10. And external USB DVD ...

They basically let you return a drive no questions asked for exchange with the newest equivilent drive from the same manufacturer. For example, I got 3 generations of LG burners before I switched to ...