Most modern laptops lack an optical drive, yet CDs and DVDs are still used in many households, whether for playing old movies ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. However, they're quickly becoming outdated.

AppleInsider explains how to remotely access the CD or DVD drive of another Mac or Windows PC from a Mac without the drive, across a network.

Help, I'm stumped! I just bought a new CD and the disc is labeled "Enhanced CD". When I insert it into my computer's CD drive, it opens up the music video of the feature song on the CD but none of ...

By Eric Grevstad Got new technology? Great; you can plug Micro Solutions Inc.'s new Backpack Triple Play CD-RW into a newfangled, high-speed USB 2.0 port.

However, it was a bit of a different story for the interface that hooks up the CD drive to your computer, as [Tech Tangents] found out when he managed to get his hands on a first-generation CM100 ...

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