When DVD-ROM drives and discs hit the market a few years ago, PC manufacturers touted them as the replacement for CD-ROM drives and discs. They tried to convince IT managers of their view by arguing ...

While CD-RW drive sales are soaring and DVD-ROM drives continue to struggle for widespread consumer acceptance, drive manufacturers are pinning their hopes on the CD-RW/DVD-ROM combination drive to ...

Lite-On IT, the world’s largest DVD-ROM and CD-RW drive manufacturer, will cut back DVD-ROM drive shipments next year due to high technology licensing fees and decreasing profit margins. Save my User ...

Shuttle, along with many other companies generally recognized as motherboard manufacturers, actually has a very diverse product line. They offer everything from CD-ROM drives to Video cards and a wide ...

Lite-On IT plans to increase DVD-ROM drive shipments to 300,000-400,000 units a month in 2002 and take the number two position in the global market. Once the company attains economies of scale, gross ...

The differences between a drive for a DVD player and a DVD-ROM drive are huge. Simply because it can run in two modes at once or switch between the two very quickly due to a huge processing ability ...

CD-ROM drives have gone through a dizzying series of speed increases over the past few years, and now drives such as Samsung's SD-612 are establishing the same pattern for DVD-ROM drives. The SD-612 ...

The GD-1000 DVD-ROM drive has a 4.7Gb capacity using single-sided disks, and up to 17Gb using dual-layer, double-sided disks. The drives are being manufactured now, but "demand is outstripping supply, ...

It's been a long time since I've followed pc parts. And now that I'm building a new computer I regret it. It's time to buy the DVD-ROM drive and I dunno what to get. I hear sony's are good but I don't ...

I'm sick and tired of loudy, whiny optical drives! I need something quieter than the Sony 16x (rebadge Lite-On, I believe) that I have in my system now. On short bursts, it whines terribly.<BR><BR>I ...

Editor's Note: This preview is based on early-release hardware and early software. It would be premature to draw any final conclusions from the results presented here. Because this is an interesting ...