Australia's love affair with digital technology isn't fading, despite our reportedly reduced appetite for spending.

While some people would like us to think everything digital can and should be distributed online, there's still a place for the optical disc. Epson has expanded its Discproducer range to help those who need to churn out moderate runs of CDs or DVDs.

Lite-On’s latest Blu-ray burner gets an ultra-fast 12x rating for data writing, resulting in what’s claimed to be “the shortest possible time to easily burn high-capacity, high definition content”.

The BBC is about to start offering TV show rentals through Facebook. First off the block will be a collection of classic and new-look Doctor Who stories.

It's been a long time coming, but there's finally a program that will play Blu-ray movies on a Mac. It's unimaginatively - though aptly - named Mac Blu-ray Player.

Although the death of DVD rental stores was predicted long ago and saw bookstores fall and fail in a far more spectacular fashion, Telstra’s sale of its BigPond DVD movie rental business may well be the last nail in the DVD’s coffin.

The venerable disc burning tool is evolving into a media conversion utility.

Imation has launched a a range of secure removable storage products with FIPS certification. The Defender Collection includes solid state, magnetic and optical media.

Meh or moolah? Martial-arts, sci-fi and action movie star, Jean Claude Van Damme (JCVD) is using his ongoing fame, acclaim and some B-Movie shame to offer a $5 bounty on unneeded DVDs, but to get this “generous” offer, you have to buy a new Sony movie, fill out a form and wait for a $5 EFTPOS card. Whoop-de-doo.

The LG HR599D PVR ticks a lot of boxes as a home entertainment hub providing a flexible way to enjoy the media of today.  This neat little box delivers Twin HD tuners, Blu-Ray playback and 500GB of hard drive space as well as DLNA compliant networking.