There was a time when burning a blank CD-ROM in your own home sparked feelings of wonder and joy as if you were performing a minor miracle. What once seemed like a technical marvel has, like so many ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Q: I noticed that there are two different types of blank CDs on the market — data and music. Is there any real difference, and, if so, would the quality of the sound suffer by burning a music CD on a ...

Here's why I want to know: I have a Plextor 12/10/32A that's been driving me crazy until I realized that all of the intermittent Windows lockups and freezes were caused by Verbatim 10X CD-RW's. It ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He now manages CNET San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D printers ...

Japan's TDK has started shipping blank Blu-ray discs to retailers, and they cost about as much as a first run movie on DVD. A 25GB recordable disc costs $19.95, according to the Blu-ray Disc ...

Organizations often create a secondary disc backup to prevent permanent loss of data or to help deploy it across multiple computers more efficiently. While burning a CD image to a blank disc is ...

We don't know for sure when Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD burners are coming to the UK (though the clever money is on Q4 or perhaps earlier for HD DVD), and we don't know how much they'll cost either.

Bootable disc image files may contain all the data necessary to create a disc from which computers can boot, but if you want them to work, you can't just burn them to a disc the way you would regular ...

Q I’m clearing out a friend’s home and wondering about his extensive record collection. He has hundreds, including classical, opera and show tunes. What I did not expect to find was a collection of ...