At the press event unveiling iLife ’08, Steve Jobs called the new version of Apple’s suite of digital lifestyle apps “the biggest enhancement to iLife since we invented it many, many years ago.” The ...

update Apple Computer on Monday said it had shipped nearly half a million computers with DVD recording drives capable of making movies that consumers can play in home DVD players. The Cupertino, Calif ...

Apple on Friday released a version of professional DVD authoring program DVD Studio Pro that it has optimized for Mac OS X. Available now, DVD Studio Pro 1.5 sells for $999, and registered users can ...

Authoring Support Update 1.1 is out via Software Update. Pieter Coolsma states: "It includes the following updates: Apple CD/DVD Driver 1.4.5, Authoring Support 1.1, FireWire Authoring Support 1.1 and ...

The Apple Store will no longer sell customers 2X DVD-R media, although a significant percentage of the Macintosh computers sold from the store over the last two years have featured 2X Apple ...

If you live in the United States and bought a new iMac DV or iMacDV SE, or a Power Mac G4 system that included a software DVD player using the Mac OS 9.0.3 operating system (or earlier) and a DVD ...

DVDs may seem like a thing of the past as streaming options like Netflix and Apple TV+ continue to gain popularity, but there’s no reason those shiny discs need to sit around collecting dust. Discover ...

The only "justification" I can imagine is profits. Including an optical drive in a build probably doesn't yield much in that respect. But making them stand-alone allows one to create the illusion of a ...