When his parents denied him a Super NES, he got mad. When they traded a prize Sega Genesis for a 2400 baud modem, he got even. Years of Internet shareware, eBay'd possessions and video game testing ...

Music, movies, and books have gone from physical objects to digital files over the past 10 years, and computer designs have changed with the times. A lot of computers — laptops, all-in-ones, and ...

The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs. The DVD-writer dvd100i, ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

Q: I want to update the drivers for my computer's DVD drive. To do this, I launched Device Manager in Windows 10 (right-click over the Start button and select "Device Manager" from the menu that ...

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

April 13, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google You've got, what, one DVD drive on the front of your computer? You have so many empty drive bays—how embarrassing ...

March 19, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Whether you use your laptop's optical drive or not, it's important to keep it clean so it's there for you when ...

There are several steps that you can take to edit the registry for a DVD drive on your computer if Windows does not recognize it. In some cases, problems may occur if you tried to upgrade your ...