Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...

The next time you try to watch a homemade movie, or access your files from a recordable DVD on your computer's DVD drive, you might be in for an unpleasant surprise. It might not work. Initial tests ...

is iDVD only compatible with the installed internal Superdrive on a tower G4? i believe that the Superdrive is made by pioneer: is it possible to get that same Pioneer drive and flash it with with the ...

Hi, I'm looking for 2 different recommendations, one for a DVD burner, the other for a DVD-ROM. <BR><BR>Here's my situation: I think my current DVD burner (Toshiba SDR-5002) is starting to fail and I ...

Continuing our coverage of fussy Mac CD and DVD burners, several readers report their experience with different media types and offer possible workarounds. Removing the "plug" Bruce Shanker reports ...

When’s the last time you saw a laptop with a spinning disc drive on a store shelf? Outside of a pawn shop, I don’t think I’ve ...

The latest version of macOS Ventura breaks compatibility with Pioneer's lineup of USB-connected CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives for the Mac. The root cause of the issue is unclear at this time, but Pioneer has ...

Power Mac G4 Manual Omission As noted in Knowledge Base article #75356, Henrik Boes notes an ommitted step for installing an additional ATA 100 drive in Power Macintosh G4 Mirrored Drive Door systems: ...

The signal processing LSI is based on Sanyo's conventional DVD/CD signal processing chip, dubbed the LC897496. Sanyo added HD DVD signal processing blocks as random logic to the cell-based DVD/CD LSI.