If you have a bunch of DVDs on your shelf, some recent reports may have you worrying if any of your collection has, in fact, ...

Manufacturers never imagined that CD and DVD discs could be used like this! This technical hack reveals an unconventional way to repurpose these old discs, giving them a new life and purpose. From ...

Originally introduced as the Digital Video Disc, the DVD was renamed to Digital Versatile Disc when it became evident that its potential could be used for much more than video. The DVD is a small ...

The Run box will open. This problem has a simple fix, just update the driver. To do that, expand DVD/CD-ROM drives, right-click on the DVD writer, and select Update driver. Select “Search ...

A direct access storage device that is written and read by light. The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges ...

An optical disc (CD, DVD) or USB drive that contains a bootable program that takes control of the computer. Computers are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the ...

The Broadcom single-chip BCM7440 Blue-ray/HD DVD SoC features a software stack complaint with both of the warring DVD specifications. Will there be a universal player, Doug Grearson, Broadcom ...

TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today reconfirmed the flexibility and expandability of the HD DVD format with the announcement of a 30GB dual-layer HD DVD-R (recordable) disc that extends the capacity ...

Many physical media enthusiasts may be familiar with DVD rot even if you don't know that exact term. The overall problem of disc rot has affected all sorts of products for decades, from LaserDiscs ...