Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

How to choose a laptop based on HDD, SSD, CD, DVD and Blu-ray options Modern laptops are moving away from mechanical drives ...

A bootable CD-ROM or DVD-ROM that contains the original installation of the OS and applications for a particular computer. When booted, a recovery program (recovery console) returns the computer ...

This problem has a simple fix, just update the driver. To do that, expand DVD/CD-ROM drives, right-click on the DVD writer, and select Update driver. Select “Search Automatically for updated ...

The CD was the first kind of optical disc ... play movies in standard definition format (720x480 pixels), and early DVD-ROM discs could store 4.7GB. So-called dual-layer DVDs could store 8.5GB ...

These days, a movie night usually involves cuddling up on the couch, turning on Netflix, and picking another rom-com movie ...

A rom-com from 2011 with an unbelievable ensemble cast is among three rom-coms on Amazon Prime Video you need to watch in ...

What you want to do here is move the CD-Rom/DVD Drive to the top of the list. Do this by selecting the down-arrow key until the CD-Rom option is highlighted, and the press the “+” key on your ...

Today marks National CD Player Day, and an interesting fact is that the inventor of CD-ROM technology was from Rome.

For many years now a source for some of the smallest and cheapest home made CNC mechanisms has been the seemingly never-ending supply of surplus CD and DVD-ROM drives. The linear actuator that ...

just ask anyone who committed to HD-DVD fifteen years ago. If, on the other hand, you were among the few who invested in CD-ROM when it was first released in the mid-1980s, you definitely made the ...