Dear Lifehacker My laptop came with a Blu-ray drive, but I can't seem to play Blu-rays with it, and everyone says I need to buy extra expensive soft ...

The same principle works for installing software from a DVD disc on a computer without a drive, and for playing audio CDs – although ripping the music from the disc to the hard drive or a USB ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. However, they're quickly becoming outdated.

OK, today my rant - copy protection mechanisms used on game CDs and DVDs which mean that you have to have the game in the CD/DVD drive in order to be able to play it.

The Switch version of Disc Jam will feature cross-platform play with PC and local wireless multiplayer with up to three other Switch consoles, developer High Horse Entertainment announced.

High Horse Entertainment announced it will be bringing cross platform play to Disc Jam within the next week or so.

Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. announced one of the industry’s first Blu-ray Disc computer drives, expected to revolutionize digital and high-definition media storage. The new Pioneer BDR-101A ...

The music video is the "Enhanced" part, but the way they structure the CD's makes them a royal PITA to play on a computer. IIRC, one way to get around it is to use a CD-ripping program like CDex ...

The CD was the first kind of optical disc, initially designed without regard for computer storage. The first prototype arrived in 1979 to play back music but was adapted into the CD-ROM format in 1985 ...

Unfortunately, Blu-ray discs aren't supported by default in our favorite media center application, XBMC. Sure, you can rip Blu-rays, but that takes forever, and you want to watch it now. Here's ...

Take warning -- video evidence shows that installing the new Grand Theft Auto's 'Play' disc to the Xbox 360 can result in dodgy gameplay.

After years of anticipation and false starts, compact discs are set to do for computers in the ’90s what they did for stereos in the ’80s. Dozens of companies are selling or readying computer ...