MLive

Stan Harrison: Jammed DVD/CD tray? Fix it yourself for less than $1

It's happened to you. I know it has. You've just finished watching your favorite movie on DVD, then press the eject button on your DVD player. Nothing happens. You press again. And again. And again.
MLive

Save your broken DVD player with this cheap O-ring trick

It's happened to you. I know it has. You've just finished watching your favorite movie on DVD, then press the eject button on your DVD player. Nothing happens. You press again. And again. And again.
CNET

Odds & Ends: Default Folder & CD burning?; DVD tray eject; checking for damaged fonts; more

Default Folder 3.1.2 and Toast Titanium conflict? A reader writes: "Hi I installed Toast Titanium 5.0.1 and Default Folder 3.1.2 on three G4/466's with Matshita CD-RW's running 9.1. When I try to burn ...
Ars Technica

Slot load vs. tray load DVD roms

Buy a slot one, I always worry that some day I will do something stupid and break the tray off my CD-ROM. But internally, they're the same, so go with your preference.
Ars Technica

Lite-on CD/DVD tray failures.

Over the years I've had a ton of failures from CD/DVD drives. But the majority of them were tray problems with lite-on drives. Anyone else have a high failure rate of this brand? I had a bunch of Lite ...