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) ...

While only the newer Sun systems and higher-end PCs today are equipped with DVD drives, application software is beginning to arrive on DVDs because of the tremendous increase in storage capacity. Your ...

The European DVD-ROM market will be five per cent - or 900,000 units - of the CD-ROM market by the end of the year, according to a report by Hitachi and market analyst IDC. By 1998, it will grow to 15 ...

I've been a Plextor fan forever, and I've got an old rig I use just for burning where the drive I use for extracting (an UltraPlex 40X SCSI CD-ROM) seems to have finally died.<BR><BR>(I've updated the ...