There’s a whole lot of interesting mechanics, optics, and electronics inside a Blu-ray drive, and [scanlime] a.k.a. [Micah Scott] thinks those bits can be reused for some interesting project.

New Blu-ray players are becoming scarce. It’s been a largely positive year for the resurgence of physical media. Vinyl ...

Blu-ray M-Disc Internal SATA DVD Drive Optical Blu-ray Drive, Supports BDXL (128GB) Discs Mdisc M disc support CD DVD Burner, 3D Blu-ray Title Playback & M-Disc Support Cable Kits: 4 Mounting ...

Drive type Internal 16X Blu-ray Disc Rewriter, M-DISC Support. Access time : BD-ROM is 180 ms typ Interface: SATA (SATA 1.1a), Buffer Memory: 4 MB Operating System - Windows XP, Windows Vista ...

Companies don't want users to hold on to physical media, and the latest tech trends are the greatest evidence for this.

In a sad but not all that unsurprising move, LG appears to be exiting the Blu-ray market by discontinuing all of its Blu-ray ...

It’s a 3D scanner built in a very hacker fashion. The X-Y stage that moves the sample is from a KES-400a Blu-Ray drive, salvged from the original “fat” Playstation 3. The Z axis is then ...

The list of manufacturers of UHD Blu-ray players continues to shrink. LG is exiting the market: The manufacturer has already ...

Any remaining LG Blu-ray players on the market will be the last units you can ever purchase — for now, at least. That will ...