A friend of mine who has a very old computer asked me about upgrading it to play DVDs (it currently has a CD-ROM only). I was wondering if anyone has an old DVD drive they're not using that they would ...

In the CD-ROM era, we saw nearly constant upgrades in spin speed, even if the speed was not really needed (and sometimes was not too reliable). However, DVD-ROM drives have been stuck a 16x for a very ...

While it may be a sad day that the more affordable and fully-baked format lost, I know many friends who bought one of these sub-$150 players as a great 1080i or 1080p up-converting DVD player which ...

Even the lowest-end notebooks on the market these days sport DVD-ROM drives, so why shouldn't you just plump for a notebook to meet your portable DVD watching needs? Alex Kidman is a freelance word ...