QUESTION: Install a replacement CD-ROM drive or put a new CD Burner in my computer? I was not sure what was the wise move for me, because the other CD-ROM drive in my computer is not working right ...

QUESTION: My computer does not recognize my CD drive. It stopped doing this so I thought the CD player was just shot. I put in a new one and got the same result. I switched IDE cables, same result.

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This ...

The husband-and-wife team of Jonathan and Laurie Davis is stepping into the future of publishing by taking a stroll through the past. Their first product: a computer-read multimedia CD about American ...

I'm just wondering if anyone knows enough about game console architecture to tell me whether getting a CD-ROM that is built-in to a video game system such as those mentioned to function as a computer ...

On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...

Looking back, it's hard to believe that we started off with stamp-sized videos and horribly pixelated 15s "multimedia" segments shoehorned into whatever version of Encarta or the Encyclopedia ...