Hello, UPnP, Tidal Connect, Spotify Connect and Roon Ready ... a Standard Edition (€699); and a CD Edition (€799) that houses a Hitachi/LG CD-ROM drive that presumably rips the CD into a data buffer ...

The Eversolo Play is also available in a CD Edition, which has a built-in Hitachi-LG CD-ROM drive. The Standard Edition is set to cost €699 (around £600 / $790 / AU$1200), while the CD Edition costs ...

Nevertheless, Dodge is still doing all it can to move those cars, like trotting out an “interactive” web experience that feels like a promotional CD-ROM from 25 years ago. Visit ...

Back then, remote broadcasts used a ... The solution was to introduce a new drive to the home PC market: the CD-ROM. Installing Windows on a PC became as simple as dropping a single disc in ...

Although the SuperStation One lacks a CD-ROM drive and doesn't ship with any ... RCA, and component connection. It also has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for networking and controller support ...

OEMs now deal with severe cost restrictions in order to produce sub-$500 PCs, he said, so if the new drives are too costly the OEMs may bypass them in favor of 32x CD-ROM drives that cost just $30.

Step back to the early CD-ROM era, though, and things were a little kookier. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, drives hit the market that required the use of a bulky plastic caddy to load discs.

Early CD-ROM drives needed CD caddies to work properly. They looked like a large floppy disk with a CD inside. "This Old Tech" is an ongoing series about technologies of the past that had an impact.

At the time, floppy drives were still popular, and CD-ROM drives were increasingly available ... record many shows in high quality, play them back instantly, and be used an essentially unlimited ...

And now it's back, stunningly realised in full real-time ... as I'd like when I tested on Meta Quest 3. Riven: the 1997 CD-ROM original stacked up against the 2024 full real-time 3D version ...