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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Blu-ray format was officially introduced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, although Sony had already developed the first prototypes in 2000. The Las Vegas trade ...

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, ...

TL;DR: The Cooler Master MasterBox CM695 mid-tower case combines retro design with modern features, including a 5.25-inch optical drive bay, support for large graphics cards, and multiple HDD/SSD bays ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Makers of new blue laser optical disk technology said this week that they have their sights firmly set on enterprise archiving applications currently handled by magnetic tape and even some nearline ...