Toshiba Brings World’s First Slim HD DVD Rewritable Drive to Mobile PCs; New HD DVD Rewrite Capabilities Turn Mobile PCs into Desktop Replacements with More Tools to Create High-Definition Content ...

TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. has developed a slim-line optical disc drive with support for Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Lightscribe label-etching technology. Lightscribe allows labels to be etched onto blank discs ...

Quanta Storage, the largest slim-type optical storage drive maker in Taiwan, expects to launch half-height, desktop-use DVD+RW drives in June and sample slim-type, notebook-use DVD+RW drives in August ...

Sony’s forthcoming smallerPlayStation 5 will make the disc drive swappable, allowing owners to remove or connect it as they wish. However, a new leak of the upcoming slim redesign points to an ...

Why it matters: Console users who prefer physical media have become increasingly concerned in recent years as the industry deemphasizes discs in favor of digital distribution. The emergence of the ...

The upcoming launch of a redesigned “PS5 Slim” model will mark the first PlayStation to support an optional disc drive add-on for the shrinking number of players who want to stick with physical media.

You can quickly swap the detachable disc drive on the new PS5 slim model between consoles with nothing but your fingers, another disc drive, and an internet connection. An unboxing video from YouTuber ...

The PS5 Slim is just around the corner, and it’s now emerged that the digital-only version of the system will require an Internet connection to pair it with the optional Blu-ray Disc drive if you ...

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