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 ...

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 ...

I have a Western Digital hard drive and a Toshiba DVD-ROM drive that I'm using with my MSI K7T Turbo-R motherboard. Unfortunately, both of these devices refuse to run in DMA (I've already tried ...

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 ...

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 ...

The popularity of Apple’s new iBook model featuring a combination CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive has caused the company to rethink its retail marketing strategy — a move Apple confirmed today in a conversation ...

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 ...