The last USB DVD burner from Lite-On that I checked out was the slim, light, and USB bus-powered eTAU208. It’s a good solution for someone looking for a portable disc burner for under $50. The company ...

The Lite-On eTAU208 USB DVD/CD Writer is a slim and light disc burner. Best of all, it’s USB powered, which means you don’t need to carry around a separate power cable. Just plug it into your netbook, ...

In this day and age, backing up your PC's system drive to DVD or any optical media strikes us as silly, going on dangerous and the backup tools available with Nero did nothing to change our minds.

Despite its decent performance and portability, a comparatively steep price tag makes the HP dvd560s DVD burner a less-than-compelling solution for users who aren't ready to part with their DVDs or ...

For those of you that have jumped on the Ultrabook or MacBook Pro bandwagon like myself, you know as well as I do that optical drives come at a premium. When I first purchased my Macbook Pro, the ...

At first glance this may look like a compact DVD case, but it's actually Pioneer's latest external DVD burner intended for mobility-concerned ultraportable and netbook users. The Pioneer DVR-XD09 tips ...

Iomega has a habit of launching new formats of its own before taking a while to catch up with what’s popular, open-ended and widely used. This is the case with its Super DVD range. However by ...

In an increasingly disc-less world, the HP dvd550s external DVD burner is a simple and affordable external optical drive that fills the void for those who still need to read and write DVDs or CDs. The ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

Buffalo Technology today announced its new MediaStation 12x External USB 3.0 Blu-ray Writer (BR3D-12U3). Offering unsurpassed 12x Blu-ray write speeds in an external form factor, this new MediaStation ...

As you can see from the first table of results below, the Samsung's claimed write speeds for different types of DVD media are considerably at odds with our real-world findings. Okay, there were ...

In an increasingly disc-less world, the HP dvd550s external DVD burner is a simple and affordable external optical drive that fills the void for those who still need to read and write DVDs or CDs. The ...