Recordable DVD drives earlier this year were sold as a high-end retail item found only in top-notch desktops. But by this holiday season, consumers will likely be able to find the same high-end ...

SAN DIEGO–Imagine storing all your DVDs onto your computer like you do now with music CDs. RealNetworks launched new software called RealDVD that lets people save DVDs to their PCs and create film ...

I am the owner of a Celeron 600 with 256Mb RAM and 80GB hard disk. Also my graphics card is Diamond Viper V770, 128 bit, AGP,32MB SDR. Before I buy my DVD-RW I was hearing different kind of stories ...

Optical drives were once so common that virtually every computer came with one, or even two. Now this storage solution is quickly becoming obsolete — it's increasingly rare to find a mainstream ...

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 ...

I've got a pretty extensive DVD collection at home, and I would love to be able to watch DVDs on my computer. The problem is, my main computer I want use to watch movies on does not have a DVD player.

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 ...