The most recent Optical Drives (CD/DVD Drive) articles from Personal Computer World

Review: Pioneer BDC-S02 Blu-ray drive

Emil Larsen — 2007-06-27T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 27 June 2007 at 00:00:00

Affordable way to watch Blu-ray

The BDC-S02 is rather confusingly labelled a ‘combo’ drive but only plays Blu-ray discs, not HD-DVDs. Its big selling point, however, is that it’s half the price of the average...

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Review: Liteon LH-2B1S Blu-ray drive

Emil Larsen — 2007-02-12T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Monday 12 February 2007 at 00:00:00

A Sata Blu-ray drive with problematic software

A year on since the first drives started to appear, there's still no clear winner in the HD-DVD versus Blu-ray battle....

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Review: HP Dvd940i DVD writer

Terry Relph-Knight — 2007-01-15T00:00:00.000Z

Terry Relph-Knight, Personal Computer World, Monday 15 January 2007 at 00:00:00

Dual layer DVD recording drive with Lightscribe labelling

HP has long been champion of the DVD+R format and this latest HP Dvd940i internal drive supports writing to both DVD+R and DVD-R single or dual layer, DVD+/-RW, DVD-Ram and...

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Review: Microsoft Xbox 360 HD DVD player

Chris Cain — 2006-11-27T00:00:00.000Z

Chris Cain, Personal Computer World, Monday 27 November 2006 at 00:00:00

A great way for Xbox 360 owners to sample high definition movies

While Samsung’s Blu-ray disc player has finally arrived in the UK, we’ve yet to see Toshiba’s HD DVD system on this side of the Atlantic....

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Review: Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray drive

Will Stapley — 2006-06-19T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Monday 19 June 2006 at 00:00:00

The first Blu-ray drive hits the shelves, but it's not cheap

There's still no sign of who's going to come out top in the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray battle, but we're now finally starting to see products arrive on the shelves (both...

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Review: Pioneer DVR-111 DVD writer

Will Stapley — 2006-04-07T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Friday 7 April 2006 at 00:00:00

Same speeds as Pioneer's previous burner, but the DVR-11 comes with a Disc-Resonance Stabiliser

DVD writers have now become so ridiculously cheap it's almost unbelievable. Go back a few years and you'd be hard pushed to find one for under £200, but these days...

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Sony DRX-810UL

Will Stapley — 2006-02-15T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 15 February 2006 at 00:00:00

A fast dual-layer drive oozing with Sony style

This external DVD drive has clearly had Sony's style wand waved at it - the simplistic silver design and mirrored panel on front give it a real touch of class....

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NEC ND-4551A

Tim Smith — 2006-02-02T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Personal Computer World, Thursday 2 February 2006 at 00:00:00

Multi-format drive with labelling technology that's faster and more versatile than the HP Lightscribe

Choosing a DVD writer can be a confusing business thanks to the never-to-be-resolved format war. And now you've also got other extras to consider such as the ability to use...

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Pioneer DVR-110 Supermulti

Will Stapley — 2006-01-24T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 24 January 2006 at 00:00:00

A good DVD writer that's great value for money

Hot on the heels of the NEC ND-4550 comes the DVR-110 Supermulti drive. Much like the NEC, Pioneer’s new drive covers all bases, including DVD-Ram....

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NEC ND-4550

Will Stapley — 2005-12-22T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Thursday 22 December 2005 at 00:00:00

A cheap dual layer DVD writer

Dual-layer DVD writing speeds are continuing to escalate, but finding the media required to cope with these speeds isn’t easy....

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Philips DVDR16LSK

Will Stapley — 2005-08-17T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 17 August 2005 at 00:00:00

Burn professional-looking image labels onto your CD and DVD

Lightscribe technology, which uses lasers to burn image labels on to Lightscribe-compatible discs, is still attracting manufacturers, despite its slower writing speed and higher cost per disc....

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HP DVD 640i

Rory Reid — 2005-07-11T00:00:00.000Z

Rory Reid, Personal Computer World, Monday 11 July 2005 at 00:00:00

Burn labels direct to optical media with this burner

HP's DVD 640i is one of the first drives on the market to incorporate the company's new 'Lightscribe' technology. Not only can it rewrite in both DVD plus and minus...

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Shuttle CR40

Rob Jones — 2005-06-02T11:58:40.000Z

Rob Jones, Personal Computer World, Thursday 2 June 2005 at 11:58:40

A well-performing DVD writer

Shuttle is known for stylish, good-quality PC products and its first dual-format DVD writer adds to that reputation. The CR40 comes in white, black or silver, to match Shuttle's range...

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Plextor PX-716A

Will Stapley — 2005-04-12T10:28:18.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 12 April 2005 at 10:28:18

Plextor's first dual-layer DVD burner

Dual-layer DVD burners have been around for a few months now, but this is the first model we've seen from Plextor....

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LG GSA-5120D

Emilie Martin — 2005-01-12T14:28:30.000Z

Emilie Martin, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 12 January 2005 at 14:28:30

Easy to use external DVD rewriter with all-format support

Adding a DVD writer to your PC lets you back up important documents and images, make your own movie discs and free up valuable hard disk space....

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