Pioneer is looking to make a bigger name for itself with this, the first 4.7GB DVD-R drive in the market place. Previous capacities have never been quite large enough to master full-length films, but this new ...

Not all DVD-ROM drives are alike. A silly remark, maybe? Not if you might need read compatibility with the recordable DVD standard, DVD-RAM. To date, we know of very few manufacturers who are shipping DVD-ROM drives ...

CD recording is now so commonplace and accessible that even your boss is probably ripping off PlayStation games in his/her office on a daily basis. But there are legal uses for the technology, too, such as ...

CD-R drives are now available at cheap-'n'-cheerful prices, particularly drives with EIDE interfaces that don't require SCSI adapters. But such drives are not exactly swift. They're fine for the occasional user who wants to make backups ...

Creating CDROMs and audio CDs is a tedious and often wasteful process. Even with a supposedly perfect setup, it is still possible to make mistakes, turning a fresh, new, blank CD into a useless piece of ...

Creative Labs spear-headed the PC's progress from near-mute, bleeping thing to multi-voiced musical instrument, with its Sound Blaster range of sound cards. The company was also instrumental (sorry) in pushing CDROM as the medium of choice ...