Pioneer Electronics announced today that it is shipping a Blu-ray computer drive, the industry's first. The BDR-101A uses blue laser technology to burn up to 25GB of data onto a single-layer Blu-ray ...

Been pondering snagging one of these to enable ripping some BR disks for mobile viewing, but the price is still pretty off-putting from a simple cost standpoint; approximately 5x the price of a ...

From what I've noticed, most games to be installed can be downloaded off the internet without physical media, let alone the need for any optical drive. At worst, you may want a DVD drive (and dollars ...

Perfect for system builders or anyone running a media-center PC, this Lite-On drive lets you watch Blu-ray movies on your monitor or HDTV. Player software is included. Rick Broida is the author of ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor Reader Anibal is looking to outfit his PC with a Blu-ray drive and wants to know if there’s any good, low-cost (or free) software for watching Blu-ray movies. That was a little ...

Plextor LLC, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment, today announced two new multifunction disc drives that combine next-generation Blu-Ray and HD DVD ...

When it came to external storage devices that do not need any power, Floppy Disks, DVD Players, and CDs were popular options a decade ago. Then came the Blu-ray Disc. A portable storage device is ...

In the battle between competing next-generation optical storage formats, HD-DVD and Blu-ray have their advantages and disadvantages. HD-DVD supporters have long claimed their format was cheaper than ...

If streaming multimedia isn’t your thing, this is the best looking, friendliest NAS box out there. This Blu-ray writer lets you back the box’s contents up to Blu-ray recordable or rewritable discs.