A former senior official at Sony Interactive Entertainment names one feature he believes the PlayStation 6 must include at ...

Verbatim has pledged to continue supporting the recordable optical media market in Japan after Sony's manufacturing closure.

It's 2025 and after almost 20 years, Sony has announced that it is ending Blu-ray media production as well as MiniDiscs, ...

An optical drive is a computer component that reads optical media such as CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs. Optical drives are specific to the types of disc formats they can read. For example, the earlier ...

Optical drives were first introduced in the 1980s, as an alternative to floppy disks and magnetic tapes. They offered higher capacity, faster access, and better durability than their predecessors.

Optical media also have a 30-year life and are less vulnerable to extreme hot or cold. However, as a transportable storage medium, they have mostly been superseded by USB-based flash drives and ...

An earlier removable, rewritable optical disk that also used magnetic technology. Introduced in 1985, magneto-optic (MO) media and drives are no longer manufactured. Refurbished drives and media ...

Optical drives are devices that read and write data from optical discs, such as CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. They are commonly used for storing and playing media files, installing software ...

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 ...

As prices of writeable media and drives dropped, consumers rushed to duplicate games, create their own mix CDs, and backup their data on optical disc. It was a halcyon time. Fast forward to today ...

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An Apple SuperDrive comes in handy if you are looking for an external optical disc that can be used on a Windows PC. In this post, we will look at how to use Apple SuperDrive on Windows 11 and ...