Reader Jeffrey Boyd has some old discs that he’d like to use in a new Mac. He writes: I have a few DVD-RAM discs left over from an older Mac that had a DVD-RAM-compatible burner. The discs are ...

We've now received several reports of faulty Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) installation DVDs. Symptoms of defective media include: Failed verification of disc contents ...

NEC Corp. has demonstrated for the first time a prototype optical disc drive that uses a single optical head to read DVDs and discs recorded in a blue-laser format that is awaiting final approval as ...

Music, movies, and books have gone from physical objects to digital files over the past 10 years, and computer designs have changed with the times. A lot of computers — laptops, all-in-ones, and ...

How many of you have come home from an exhausting day of work or class, popped a game into your PlayStation 2, and sat down on the couch only to see "Disk Read Error" on your TV? For many, it's an all ...

I'm finding that after burning new files to a CD/DVD disk, XP's Explorer does not always update the list of files/folders to reflect the changes. Refresh does not work. Nor does ejecting the disk and ...