DVD drives have been at rock-bottom prices for a fair while now, with models available for as little as �15. The new iHAS324 from Lite-On isn't quite that cheap, but at just �20 it's still very ...

There are three main reasons for buying a Blu-ray rewriter: to play Blu-ray movies, to record your own HD videos and to archive substantial amounts of data. Pioneer's BDR-203BK is designed to do all three and ...

The nattily named GP08-NU10 is a Super Multi Drive, which means it can do lots of super multiple things. Stop us if we get too technical. It does, of course, refer to this external drive's multiple ...

LG may just have arrived at the party a little too late with its Super Multi Blue combo optical drive. Stepping foot on neither side of the high definition format war, LG adopts the kind of ...

One of the things holding back the wholesale adoption of the Blu-Ray disc format is the high price of the drives to read and write the discs. Rumour has it the price has been kept high ...

If you've been hunting for the cheapest way to enjoy either HD DVD or Blu-ray, the answer in both cases is likely to lie in a games console. The Playstation 3, as has been widely reported, ...

The only way you'll know this drive is not a straight DVD rewriter is the Blu-ray logo on its tray-front and the substantial drop in your bank account when you buy one. The cheapest we could ...

If you have a desktop PC which has no DVD rewriter, you have two options. You can either open the case and fit an internal drive, or plug-in an external USB device. If you have a ...

There are a number of external DVD rewriters available. Rather than having to delve around inside your PC, this type of drive plugs straight into a USB 2 port. Where LG's new take on this product ...

DVD writers have dramatically fallen in price with the result that many of the smaller companies have been driven out of the market, leaving a handful of giants behind. The market leader is HLDS (a joint ...

LG's new GSA-4166B internal DVD writer sits at the top of its Super Multi DVD writer range with the promise that it supports every DVD format you've ever heard of, plus a few more besides. In ...

LightScribe DVD drives have been available for quite a while, or at least they have if you own a desktop PC. Laptop users have had to wait a little longer for this interesting feature, but manufacturers ...

And so the latest speed race in optical drives gathers pace. It all kicked off in the mid-1990s with read speeds of CD drives, moving onto CD burning, DVD reading and DVD burning. The current race ...

The latest DVD writer from HP, model dvd640i, is a naughty little minx. It teases us with its specification, which has the key headline figure of DVD+R 16x. Naturally it supports both plus and minus formats, ...

If the DVD Recorder sounded the death knell of the VCR, then the DVD-R/HDD combination has all but buried it and paid for the headstone, offering the choice of recording directly to DVD or storing programmes ...

Many people will have heard of Lite-On already, but for those who are not familiar with the name, the company is currently the largest producer of optical drives in Taiwan. Until now it was known for ...

We all know about external DVD writers. They use a regular internal drive in an external housing with either a USB or Firewire interface (or both), and the result is that an external CD writer or ...

In the world of DVD writers the state of the art is making rapid advances, and you'll find LG right at the cutting edge with its GSA-4120B. Last year the big question was whether a DVD ...

The previous model of NEC DVD writer was the ND-2500A with 8x speed on DVD+R/-R media and 4x speed on DVD+RW/-RW, so clearly the ND-2510A was going to be a minor update that added little or ...

As members of the DVD+RW Alliance, Sony has been at the forefront of DVD recording innovation; first to market with Dual Format drives - the DRU-500A - and now the first Double Layer drive; the DRU-700A. ...