I was looking to pick up a basic bluray reader, no burning required. I just want to play some bluray movies on it, and yes, I'm willing to do an internal, 5.25" drive. Any form factor will do, ...

Then buy the cheapest USB version of the drive you can find. The day you need to read blu-ray, UHD versions, or even M-Disc. You will pony up for a drive that can read it. You're effectively wanting ...

Pioneer Corp. plans to unveil its first Blu-ray Disc (BD) format optical disc drive for PCs at the upcoming International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the company said today. The drive will go on ...

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. — LG Electronics has launched a line of optical disc drives that feature 6X Blu-ray reading and writing speeds. In addition to Blu-ray, the three models are also compatible with ...

Adding a Blu-ray or HD DVD drive to a laptop is no small investment, but if you're a digital content creator or a media producer working with high-definition video, it starts to make sense. Alienware ...

A new Blu-ray optical drive has been announced from Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions, the excitingly-named DX-401S. Launching in April, the read-only disc drive can read all DVD+/-R(W), CD-R(W) ...

Recently I had a conversation with a coworker who asked me about CD-ROM drives. They purchased a new PC a year or so ago and it does not have an optical drive. This wasn’t a problem until they came ...

The competition between the competing next-generation optical disk technologies of Blu-ray and HD DVD has entered a new phase, as optical drive makers start rolling out the first products based on the ...

Over the past few decades, Lite-On has been regarded as an industry leader in uncompromising quality of design and consumer satisfaction in a variety of consumer electronics markets. Most notably, ...

Blu-ray and DVD drives are being kicked out of PCs but Sony hopes to find them a new life in data centers as storage that can retain data for up to 100 years. A massive new system from Sony called ...