Sony Optiarc is a major manufacturer of optical disc drives for Blu-ray Disc and DVD. Its drives are used in products made by Sony and other electronics and PC makers. It has two subsidiaries: a U ...

Hey all. The optical drive on my unibody mbp has recently decided to refuse to suck in discs. I'm not really familiar with how the inner mechanism works, but it doesn't even try to pull the disc ...

Production units of the Optical Media format equipment, to be shown at IBC2003 this fall, include the PDW-530/530p and PDW-510/510p camcorders, PDW-V1 laptop edit system, PDW-1500 compact source deck ...

Pioneer's newest optical disc drive does more than just play Blu-rays, but will be able to burn large capacity discs as well. According to its Japanese website (via Tom's Hardware), the BDR-213JBK ...

Released in 2020, the PS5 Digital Edition was the first Sony console to launch without an optical disc drive. The discless PS5 Pro followed suit four years later. Both the mid-gen upgrade and the ...

The new detachable disc drive PS5 variant has been rumored to release in September, 2023 and apparently has been in production since 2020.

The 3.3TB media is part of Sony’s second-generation Optical Disc Archive System, a successor to the original system launched in 2013. Sony also announced optical drives to support the new media.

This interesting technology used an energy-efficient laser, cramming 500TB onto a DVD-sized disc, but there needed to be improvements in both read and write speeds on this drive (and the new 200TB ...

Apple still sells the SuperDrive, which is its combined DVD and CD drive that you can plug into the USB port on your Mac. Read on to find out whether it is worth buying the Apple SuperDrive.

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...