Optical discs... Apple hates them, but lots of people still use them. Blu-ray has been a relatively slow starter in the computer world and we will never see that technology in an Apple product.

I back up my computers to hard drives using about a terabyte of storage (500 GB in each set). But these sets are incremental and rotate. I don’t keep any permanent copies, just two separate aging sets ...

The BenQ DW1625 is the first rewriter we've seen that features HP's LightScribe disc-labeling technology, which uses the drive's CD laser to etch the surface of specially prepared media. The DW1625 ...

We still label our CDs and DVDs the old-fashioned way: with a Sharpie. But that doesn't mean we don't appreciate the idea of the laser-etched labels that LightScribe and LaserFlash drives are capable ...

Recently, the Macworld Lab received a few DVD burners to test and review. All three of the drives we’re testing come with LightScribe, a laser-based disc-labeling technology. As we discussed the ...

All current Macs can read DVDs, but not all Macs can burn them. If you’re suddenly feeling the urge to unleash your inner movie mogul, want to start backing up some important files to dual-layer discs ...

CHARLOTTE, NC (October 9, 2008 — Leveraging many of the same technologies that set the standard for high-speed DVD+R Double Layer (DL) disc performance, reliability and compatibility, Verbatim ...

Back when CD-Rs were the thing, there were CD burner drives which would etch images in the unoccupied areas of a CD-R. These so-called LightScribe drives were a novelty of which most users soon tired, ...

So a client sends out occasional DVDs for delivery of GIS data to customers and wanted a more attractive DVD. I suggested lightscribe. As a favor, I helped them pickup a cheap lightscribe DVD burner, ...

One of the great things about roaming the expo at Macworld is stumbling upon a product you never thought about. Even better is sharing it with people who don't care, and may even get mad at you for ...

A developer has dusted off an almost 20-year-old software project for burning visual artwork onto the data surface of a Compact Disc. Arduinocelentano stresses that the applied imaging technique ...