10 Best USB DVD Recorders
for March 2023

This DVD player plays multiple disc formats including DVD, DVD-R-RW, CD Video, Mpeg4, and Divx. The remote control can operate the player and will make using the DVD player easy. The player is small and easy to hide when not being used.

This versatile device delivers quickly when transferring data and burns CDs and DVDs. Its compatibility with Macbook is a plus, but its high price means it's out of our budget and out of reach for most.

The Lenovo External USB DVD Burner is the best portable external DVD burner for your laptop. Its low price and long warranty make this a no-brainer.

The LG DVD Player is the least expensive we tested with the features necessary for high-definition video watching. It also plays CDs, DVD movies, and MP3 audiobooks.

The external CD drive burns CDs and DVDs. Its lightning-fast transfer rate makes it a great choice for backing up data, ripping music and watching DVDs in high-definition.

Our best buy pick, the Dell drive offers good performance and excellent value. Notably, its reliable performance made it our top pick among drives in our lab tests.

This burner drive is one of the fastest drives we tested. Unfortunately, it's not compatible with windows 8 and higher.

This Blu-ray burner from Lenovo was smooth at copying, burning, and designating files. And it supports Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 & 2010 and Movie Maker 2010.

This drive works well and reads/writes discs just fine. However, we ran into a problem with compatibility: the unit will sometimes freeze or freeze up during reading/write and immediately need to be shut down and restarted.