Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

CD/DVD drives are able to: read all CD and DVD formats write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW Data is written to and read from the discs using a laser.

(1) A recordable or rewritable DVD drive that is connected to the computer. It may be an internal or external device. See DVD drives, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD+RW. (2) A stand-alone DVD player ...

This month HP introduces its latest DVD burners into the market, now with Super Multi support. As well as burning high-capacity DVD±R(W) (double layer) media, these drives are also read/write ...