For many Africans like me growing up in the 2000s with limited access to legitimate software, buying pirated DVDs and CDs was our introduction to consuming media. I spent a lot of my formative years ...

Despite the popularity of video streaming services, a lot of us still have a DVD collection in a closet, or on a shelf. A portable DVD player can run on battery power, and has a built-in screen, so ...

Apple was one of the first manufacturers to exclude DVD players from its laptops, and the same quickly became true for iMacs as well. This meant that if you wanted to rip CDs for your iTunes library, ...