Just in time for the end of Windows 10 mainstream support, Akihabara stores are quickly running out of optical PC drives.

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

Windows 10 reaching end-of-life has apparently breathed new life into optical disc drives, which have seen a sudden rise in ...

You consider yourself a power user. You’ve got lots of files, and damn it, you like to keep them backed up. Around a decade ago, you gave up on burning optical discs, and switched to storing your ...

In context: While cloud storage and streaming have become the preferred way of consuming content for many, there remains a devoted crowd for whom optical media is irreplaceable. Sony used to be a big ...

In theory, they absolutely are long-lived. A factory-pressed CD (not a writable disc) should last longer than the average ...

Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-rays, may have completely fallen out of favor in the PC games business over the last few years, but scientists have possibly thrown a lifeline to the ...

Handling large volumes of physical media can be a bit of a chore, whether it’s about duplication or archiving. Fortunately this is a perfect excuse for building robotic contraptions, with the robots ...

Even IT managers can get the blues. Or at least that’s what a gaggle of vendors are hoping as they prepare ultradense optical storage products based on blue-laser technology. Conventional optical ...

Covering the world of streaming media over the last year made me confident it was time to go back to 1999, as I’ve become a proponent of physical media. But instead of watching my DVD copies of ...

There is a need to study if allocating P66 million to the Optical Media Board (OMB) for 2026 is justifiable given its poor ...

So I'm experimenting with trying to depend less on streaming services. I got a Blu-ray USB drive. (It's can also burn Blu-ray, because I couldn't find a reputable play-only device.) Even though I did ...