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Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Seth Porges |
How to Eject Discs from Mac Pro Towers: Digital Clinic How to eject a CD/DVD disc from a Mac Pro tower computer without a keyboard.   |
PC Magazine
May 18, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Eject a Stuck CD Advice on manually ejecting a stuck CD. |
PC World
November 2002
Melissa J. Perenson |
Shattered: This CD's in Tatters? High-speed drives increase the chances that a defective CD will explode. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2005
Troy Dreier |
Fix Your Discs We tested five popular cleaning and repair kits on deeply scratched CDs; they all clean well, but only one repaired more than superficial scratches. Alera... Allsop... etc. |
PC World
June 2004
Jon Jacobi |
Burn DVDs by the Dozen Handy small-office disc duplicator by Primera Technology skimps on the software. |
PC World
October 3, 2002
Martyn Williams |
Philips Shows Off Coin-Size Optical Discs Miniature discs can hold 1GB of data, and could replace memory cards in future electronic devices. |
PC World
September 24, 2001
Carla Thornton |
Toshiba Satellite 2805-S603 Fast, chunky consumer laptop serves as a CD burner and stand-alone CD player, and provides a SmartMedia card slot for quick digital-file sharing... |
PC World
July 18, 2002
Michael Gowan |
How to Burn Without Getting Singed Burning a CD is easy. Just follow these steps to create a backup disc or copy an entire CD. |
Home Toys
April 2006
Linda Simon |
Maintaining & Restoring your DVDs & CDs Do you aspire to improve tracking, protect your digital library, and make your sound and picture quality better? DVDs & CDs, as we all know, are not indestructible, but by following these tips you can keep your discs healthy and help restore them when they aren't. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2008
Joel Johnson |
How to Unlock DVD Regions on Your Mac and PC: Tech Clinic There are plenty of programs, for both Macs and PCs, that circumvent disc regions entirely, or that allow you to rip DVD movies onto your hard drive. |
Home Theater
November 22, 2004
Darryl Wilkinson |
Green with Envy Over New Blu-Ray Triple Disc Recorder Sharp's three-in-one HD recorder is the first to combine Blu-ray Disc and DVD recorders with a hard disc drive. |
Macworld
May 2004
Christopher Breen |
Dragon Burn 3.1 Dragon Burn 3.1.17, an inexpensive disc-burning application from NewTech Infosystems, promises some intriguing features that Mac OS and Roxio's Toast 6 Titanium do not offer. |
Home Theater
June 11, 2007 |
UltimateAV Offers Discount on HQV Benchmark Want to test video displays like the pros? Then get your hands on the HD HQV Benchmark test disc. |
PC World
November 20, 2006
Melissa J. Perenson |
Blu-ray Burner Boasts Solid Software Bundle The Plextor PX-B900A optical drive performs well and comes with a top-notch set of burning programs, but it carries a daunting price tag. |
PC World
February 20, 2002
Kuriko Miyake |
Terabyte Optical Disc in Development Optware refines holographic technology so disc can store more than 100 DVDs... |
Home Theater
May 5, 2009 |
GE Disc Stores Half a Terabyte General Electric has developed an optical disc format using microholographic technology that stores 500 gigabytes, or about 100 times the capacity of a DVD, and 10 times the capacity of a Blu-ray dual-layer disc. |
PC World
March 2004
Melissa J. Perenson |
Optical Drives: Simplified DVD Labeling HP's invention, due in drives soon, lets users burn labels. It uses the same laser that already burned the data to make a label on the flip side of the disc. |
Macworld
February 21, 2007
Brian Chen |
Sony DRX-830UL-T External Burner Fast, well-designed CD/DVD recorder does its job well. |
Home Theater
December 7, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
Discs That go Bump in the Light Scratch-Less Disc Industries has announced that their Scratch-Less optical discs are now available at various retail outlets throughout the country and online at major Internet retailers. |
PC Magazine
June 8, 2005
John R. Quain |
A New Dimension in Storage InPhase Technologies' prototype drive packs 300GB of data on one disc. |
PC World
June 18, 2002
Kuriko Miyake |
Philips Shrinks CD to 1.2 Inches Blue laser technology supports tiny drive for use in phones, PDAs. |
PC Magazine
February 8, 2008
Joel Santo Domingo |
If the Disc Doesn't Fit... Don't insert weirdly shaped CDs or DVDs into your optical drive. |
Home Theater
June 26, 2002 |
Panasonic 3rd Generation DVD Recorder The new machine accommodates 12 hours of digitally recorded picture and sound on a double-sided DVD-RAM disc, and up to 6 hours on a single-sided DVD-RAM or DVD-R disc, thanks to Panasonic's "hybrid variable bit rate" technology. |
Home Theater
December 10, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Amazon Lets You Have It Both Ways Disc+ On Demand combines disc purchase with streaming. |
Macworld
July 2001
Jason Snell |
iDVD 1.0 Apple finally releases easy-to-use, if buggy, DVD-authoring software... |
Home Theater
March 29, 2006
Darryl Wilkinson |
Which Day for this Blu-ray? Panasonic says its first Blu-ray Disc (BD) player, the DMP-BD10, will be available this September for under $1,500 in the U.S. |
Home Theater
June 17, 2009 |
Managed Copy Will Be Mandatory in Blu-ray Managed Copy, until now an option in the Blu-ray disc format, will become a requirement next year. |
Home Theater
December 31, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
A Blu-ray Computer Pioneer Pioneer says they'll begin shipping one of the industry's first Blu-ray disc computer drives during the first quarter of 2006. |
PC Magazine
March 1, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n5 The Holographic Virtual Disc Alliance (HVD) has rallied Fuji Photo and others behind plans to develop optical discs that store a terabyte of data. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Macs That Speak Fluent PC Elegant as Apple's Boot Camp software is, it's the wrong solution for the many people who might like to buy a Mac but need to run an occasional Windows program. There's a better way. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Netflix Can't Kill the DVD The movie studios won't let it -- yet. |
Home Theater
August 9, 2001 |
Philips Unveils DVD Recorder The veritable VCR is headed for obsolescence. Not neccessarily today nor tomorrow, but eventually. Its departure will be hastened by digital devices like Philips' new DVDR1000, a DVD recorder that made its official bow in June at the IFA 2001 Consumer Electronics show in Berlin... |
PC World
September 2, 2002
Martyn Williams |
Memory Lane: More Formats Become Compatible New XD Picture Card from Fuji and Olympus is designed to make life easier, but confusion over competing formats continues. |
PC World
November 3, 2007
Lincoln Spector |
Diagnose and Repair an Unbootable XP or Vista PC What to do when your Windows XP or Windows Vista system refuses to boot. |
Home Toys
August 2004 |
Understanding Double Layer DVD Recording While consumers around the world have enjoyed burning their own DVDs for a few years now, the inevitable question of "what's next" is now upon the industry. But double layer DVD technology is not new. |
PC World
July 2006
Tom Mainelli |
Gotcha: Where's My PC Card Slot? The ExpressCard slot, a new standard as of 2003, replaces the PC Card slot but doesn't accommodate current PC Cards. |
PC World
November 29, 2007
Melissa J. Perenson |
High-Def Player Prices Plunge Both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD players have come down in price this year. |
PC World
January 4, 2007
Melissa J. Perenson |
Philips BDP9000 The BDP9000's sleek design and friendly menus make it a good choice if you're in the market for a Blu-ray disc player. |
PC World
March 9, 2001
Carla Thornton |
Toshiba Satellite 2805-S202 Chunky consumer laptop makes great tune-meister but lacks docking connection... |
T.H.E. Journal
November 1999 |
Networking - JVC's new MC-7000 Series of DVD-RAM libraries JVC's new MC-7000 Series of DVD-RAM libraries, or storage disc "jukeboxes," consist of three models having 260GB (100 discs), 520GB (200 discs) and 1.6TB (600 discs) of data storage capacity.... |
PC World
August 25, 2006
Narasu Rebbapragada |
Parallels Puts Windows Inside the Mac Utility allows you to run Windows as a 'virtual machine' on an Intel-based Mac system. |
PC World
April 2005
Jon L. Jacobi |
HP's LightScribe Etches DVD Labels DVD burner's included technology lets you add your own disc labels. |
Macworld
February 22, 2007
Peter Cohen |
Toast 8 Titanium Dependable burning software adds wealth of new features. |
Home Theater
December 13, 2004
Darryl Wilkinson |
O High-Def DVD Format, Where Art Thou? Here are some of the latest developments in the march toward a higher definition DVD. |
PC World
December 15, 2000
Stephanie Bruzzese |
Toshiba's Speedy Satellite Offers Multimedia Options Galore This full-function notebook, priced to please, excelled on our PC WorldBench tests... |
PC Magazine
September 7, 2007
Cisco Cheng |
Aleratec 1:3 DVD/CD Auto Publisher LS If your company spends countless hours mass-producing copies of DVDs and CDs, this machine can automate the process. |
Macworld
May 2, 2005
James Galbraith |
Lacie D2 DVD+/-RW with LightScribe 16x LightScribe, invented by HP and then spun off, uses a special laser built into your drive to draw images and text onto a thin dye-based coating on the non-data side of a LightScribe disc. |
Home Toys
June 2004 |
Data Longevity on CD, DVD Media There is a lot of cheap CDR and DVDR media that has marginal quality. For some applications like games, quality isn't critical. For irreplaceable, vital data like family photos, special events, vacations and family/friends memories quality does matter. |
PC World
September 2004
Jon L. Jacobi |
Better Backups We test fast, vast, and cheap new storage options that take the pain out of keeping your vital data safe. |
Home Theater
February 27, 2003 |
NAD's Affordable New Disc Player Great performance doesn't have to be expensive. That's always been NAD's philosophy. The company has launched a new affordable disc player claimed to offer exceptionally good CD playback and excellent video performance at the easy-access price of only $399. |
