Most modern laptops lack an optical drive, yet CDs and DVDs are still used in many households, whether for playing old movies, installing older software, or even for making physical backups. An ...

Dynamic Instruments (DI) has developed an external DVD drive, interfacing with DI's Enhanced Courier to provide laptop playback of DI archive media disks on Windows 2000 Professional workstations.

I need an external DVD/BR drive for my next computer setup for sure. My next laptop will be an ultrabook (probably Dell's linux lappie, once they come out with a Haswell version), that will never have ...

Which external DVD drive is best? Internal disc drives have become less common in both desktop and laptop computers, which has given rise to another product: the external DVD drive. External DVD ...

Asus has announced an 'Extreme Slim' external DVD-RW drive, which the electronics giant insists combines "attractive aesthetics with the advanced optical media features demanded by portable PC users ...

In these modern times, CDs have become somewhat ancient technology. Because of the decline in CD popularity, laptops do not even come with CD drives. On the rare occasion that you need a CD drive, you ...