There was a time when burning a blank CD-ROM in your own home sparked feelings of wonder and joy as if you were performing a minor miracle. What once seemed like a technical marvel has, like so many ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Some readers are reporting an issue where blank optical media (including CDs and DVDs) are not recognized under Mac OS X 10.5.2. MacFixIt reader Ted writes: "I have a new MacPro, 2.8 ghz, dual super ...

Q: I noticed that there are two different types of blank CDs on the market — data and music. Is there any real difference, and, if so, would the quality of the sound suffer by burning a music CD on a ...

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Sharful wants to copy some DVDs, but they contain more information than will fit on his blank discs. DVDs can be manufactured with either one or two data layers. Single-layer discs hold 4.7GB, and are ...

Organizations often create a secondary disc backup to prevent permanent loss of data or to help deploy it across multiple computers more efficiently. While burning a CD image to a blank disc is ...

We don't know for sure when Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD burners are coming to the UK (though the clever money is on Q4 or perhaps earlier for HD DVD), and we don't know how much they'll cost either.