Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) plans to begin selling a Blu-ray Disc drive in Japan in June for use in desktop computers, the company said today. The drive is the first to be ...

Sony released details on several products that will feature Blu-ray high-definition DVD drives--but like the PlayStation 3, you're going to have to wait awhile to take them home. The company unveiled ...

Trick out your media center with this dirt-cheap Blu-ray Disc drive. Newegg has the nonrefurb deal, for the Sony Optiarc internal drive. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of ...

There’s no mistaking it: The battle for dominance between HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc is now finally down to the consumers. In the last month, we’ve had three PCs announced with drives for the new formats ...

El Segundo, Calif., August 25, 2009—Despite a rapid rise in the sales of consumer Blu-ray players, a fall in their prices and an increase in the number of high-definition movie titles, Blu-ray Drives ...

Fujitsu Ltd. hasn’t taken sides in the next-generation DVD format battle and as such plans a late June launch of a desktop PC with a Blu-ray Disc drive and a laptop computer with an HD-DVD drive, the ...

Optical disc devotees continue to find safe ports and harbors in Japan, with the release of the new FMV Note A laptop line (machine translation). This laptop range fuses modern features like a Windows ...

From what I've noticed, most games to be installed can be downloaded off the internet without physical media, let alone the need for any optical drive. At worst, you may want a DVD drive (and dollars ...

Looks like Pioneer will be the first to bring a PC-based Blu-ray disc drive to market with its BD1.5. We don’t have much more information than the fact that it will be internal and shipping sometime ...