#5252

WinCDEmu – Easiest way to mount a disk image

Hardware-Related
As we all know, the greatest benefits of the image file format are security, stability, and high compression. Therefore, many collectable files are made into ISO or other image file formats for preservation and distribution. Instead of burning an image file as a CD/DVD as before in order to view the files inside, you can always use a file archiver like 7-Zip to direct extract them out (which can be time-consuming), but a better way to do that is use a virtual drive.
#3888

[v9.2.1] DVDFab Passkey – Remove all known DVD/Blu-ray disc protections with ease

Hardware-Related
Are you still upset about the protective restriction of DVD and Blu-ray movies? Now you can use DVDFab Passkey to easily and quickly remove it. DVDFab Passkey is an optical disc decryptor from China (its essence is based on the Windows driver), which is specially designed for removing various protection mechanisms (such as regional restriction, anti-copy, etc.) of DVD and Blu-ray discs. Its function is similar to AnyDVD, but it is completely free of charge.
#3422

[v18.4] BurnAware – Lightweight burning tool with super-intuitive UI

Hardware-Related
BurnAware is a super-intuitive and full-featured free optical disc burning software with user-friendly and clear-cut interface. It supports all standard optical storage mediums (include CD/DVD/Blu-ray/HD-DVD), comes with good and wide hardware compatibility (supports quite a number of recording equipment: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE, HD-DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM) on IDE/SCSI/USB/1394/SATA port.
#1486

CDBurnerXP – Best freeware alternative to expensive Nero

Hardware-Related
The best one must be Nero among all kinds of burning tools, but it's so expensive that not in the scope of our individual users' consideration... So I found CDBurnerXP, which may be said loved at first sight.