A hardware feature that used to be standard on computers and consoles has quietly disappeared. Several practical shifts explain why it stopped mattering.

PALO ALTO, Calif - HP today announced plans to include Blu-ray Disc drives across many of its product lines, including select consumer desktop and notebook PCs, personal workstations and digital ...

Following a trend among some makers of standalone dual disc players, Hewlett-Packard this week will begin offering some of its high-end consumer desktop PCs with dual-format drives for HD DVD and ...

In this increasingly digital era, physical media has become a thing of the past in most circles. There is, however, sustained interest in such supposedly antiquated tech. Some examples of this include ...