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 want to buy some more DVD-R's for my new iMac, but I don't want to necessarily buy them from Apple authorised dealers [looking for better prices]. What do I need to know to make sure that what I buy ...

A reader asks where he can buy blank DVDs that can record (and play) for longer than two hours. The answer is easy. And not easy. The easy part: Any standard blank DVD-R and DVD+R (those are the two ...

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I have my friend's PPC eMac set up to do weekly backups with Retrospect 6 onto single-layer DVD-Rs, using his 2005-era LaCie d2 FireWire external drive. The backups have been running fine for years, ...

Yesterday I inserted a blank DVD-R disc into my MacBook Pro (2.33GHz Core 2 Duo) like I've done dozens of times before. But this time was different. This time it destroyed my SuperDrive. After I ...

(1) A recordable or rewritable DVD drive that is connected to the computer. It may be an internal or external device. See DVD drives, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD+RW. (2) A stand-alone DVD player for ...

Leading and second-tier Taiwan-based optical discs makers have had their production capacities for blank DVD+R/-R discs fully occupied for the fourth quarter of 2007, but corresponding OEM prices have ...