Blu-ray players, game consoles and CD-ROM drives in your laptop are multi-tasking tools that aren't purpose-built for dedicated hi-fi listening. They prioritise gaming, visuals, computational power; ...

The bit with the BGA ball connections is particularly inspired. [15432] also goes even deeper into a look at how the battle around the Xb0x 360’s DVD-ROM drive got heated.

Another benefit of DVD-RAM over MO drives was the ability to do hard-drive-like fast random seeks and support various filesystems, allowing non-contiguous data.

Whisky is an app that simplifies using the Game Porting Toolkit on your Mac, and can open up a wealth of Windows games to Mac users. Here's how to use it.

If you just need a simple drive to install a program from a CD-ROM, you can buy an external CD/DVD drive for around $20 from Amazon. Any external optical drive you buy will plug into a USB port on ...

To check if your DVD Writer drivers are updated, you can use Windows Update or Device Manager to update your Drivers. In the Device Manager, you will see the DVD/CD-ROM Drives menu.

Culture journalist Victoria Goldiee grew up watching burned DVDs and CDs on a Dell DVD player. Recently, she came across the Dell USB DVD Drive-DW316, which is lightweight, compatible with many ...

Live11, based on the optimized Tiny11 from NTDEV, manages to squeeze Windows 11 on a 4GB drive and can run on RAM with no installation required.

Most importantly, it worked with a DVD-ROM drive and could pull double duty as a DVD video player which invited even non-gamers to purchase the console.

If you face an issue where the CD/DVD Icon is not visible in the File Explorer - This PC page on Windows 11/10, see this working solution.