Apple has always been eager to dump technologies when the company feels they have outlived their usefulness. The original iMac came without a floppy drive. The iPhone 7 came without a headphone jack.

Plextor Announces 18X DVD+/-R External Burner with USB 2.0 and FireWire Interfaces That Delivers Data Transfer Speeds up to 480 MB/Sec Plextor LLC, a leading developer and manufacturer of ...

Apple was one of the first manufacturers to exclude DVD players from its laptops, and the same quickly became true for iMacs as well. This meant that if you wanted to rip CDs for your iTunes library, ...

No matter what kind of Windows 10 PC you own, you need to know how to burn DVDs on Windows 10. DVDs are a pretty easy way to share videos, pictures, documents and back up files when you don’t have the ...

Addonics Technologies today announced two new external hard drives that also come with either a Blu-ray player or a DVD burner. The new Sapphire Combo Blu-ray/HDD drive connects to desktops, laptops ...

Put a well printed book on the shelf for 500 years. Then take it down, open it and you'll be able to read it. Put your most valuable data on a disk drive, or a DVD, or a thumb drive. Wait five years ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

In an increasingly disc-less world, the HP dvd550s external DVD burner is a simple and affordable external optical drive that fills the void for those who still need to read and write DVDs or CDs. The ...

Despite its decent performance and portability, a comparatively steep price tag makes the HP dvd560s DVD burner a less-than-compelling solution for users who aren't ready to part with their DVDs or ...

— -- This weekly roundup takes a look at the practical and sometimes quirky aspects of tech products. DVD burner gets connected Want to save your smartphone's videos onto a disc? No need to power ...

Plextor's been plenty busy this week, announcing its new M3 Pro SSD and PlexEasy external DVD burner, but the company's not done unveiling new products just yet. Plextor's newest offering is another ...

If you need to make on-the-move backups of your photographs, audio, or video files, or are just not that great at using a computer and need a simple backup solution, enabling you to create DVDs, ...