Apple’s digital-hub strategy has made the DVD burner — with its ability to play movies, back up more than 4.5GB of data, and create movies that your friends can play on their home DVD players — a ...

I've recently done a complete format of my drive and re-installed XP Pro and now for some reason, I can't read any of my DVD-R's that I've burned. I'm using the Toshiba SDR-2005 drive and it can read ...

Fix for Hermstedt WebShuttle DSL We first reported on a problem affecting Hermstedt WebShuttle DSL under Mac OS X 10.2.4 last week. Hermstedt has now released updated drivers that allow the modem to ...

MCE Technologies LLC on Monday announced an 8x DVD-R internal optical drive upgrade for Apple iBook G3 laptops. The slot-loading drive replaces the internal tray-loading drives found in Apple’s older, ...

Note, however, that DVD-R back-up is only a supplement to a mirror drive or RAID array, not a substitute. DVD backup is takes too much time to be a realistic day-to-day solution. That said, you can ...