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Your next computer may not have a disc drive, but that doesn't mean you can't use your old CD or DVDs. You just need to learn a few simple tricks.

install alcohol 120% or daemon tools, make an image of the play disc, mount it on the virtual drive and voilla! you do not need to pop in a CD everytime you want to play.

An external optical drive lets you watch, rip, and burn DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Our favorites are fast, quiet, and reliable.

Remote Disc appears only to be able to share CD / DVD drives and CD / DVD discs, not high capacity / HD optical drives. We tested sharing a regular DVD over an HD DVD drive, no luck.

That’s because disc drives themselves are absent from smaller, lighter computers and because Windows 10 does not come with software that can play them.

By Eric Grevstad Got new technology? Great; you can plug Micro Solutions Inc.'s new Backpack Triple Play CD-RW into a newfangled, high-speed USB 2.0 port.

The first Blu-ray (BD) disc drive for desktop PCs is here, but be warned -- it won't play commercial BD movies.

The all-digital PS5 is cheaper than the regular PlayStation 5 with a disc drive, but the savings will not always be beneficial in the long run.

The PS5 disc drive is a detachable external accessory that clicks easily onto the side of the PS5 Slim and PS5 Pro, letting you play both physical games and Blu-ray films.

Why discs? As touched on already, CD, DVD, and Blu-ray make up the three types of physical disc media one can use on a PC or home entertainment system.