Using Optical Discs - HP Compaq Presario,Presario CQ40-600 User Manual

Using optical discs

An optical drive plays optical discs. Your optical drive can read standard CD and DVD discs, and if it is
a Blu-ray Disc ROM Drive, it can also read Blu-ray Discs (BDs).
These discs store information, such as music, photos, and movies. DVDs have a larger storage capacity
than CDs, and BDs have the largest capacity of all.
NOTE: Some of the optical drives listed may not be supported by your computer. The listed drives are
not necessarily all of the supported optical drives.
Some optical drives can also write to optical discs as described in the following table.
Optical drive type
DVD±RW and CD-RW
SuperMulti DL Combo
Drive
DVD±RW and CD-RW
SuperMulti DL Combo
Drive with LightScribe
Blu-ray ROM DVD±R/
RW SuperMulti DL
Drive
Blu-ray ROM with
LightScribe DVD±R/
RW SuperMulti DL
Drive
CAUTION:
video playback functionality, do not initiate Sleep or Hibernation while reading or writing to a disc.
Write to CD-RW
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
To prevent possible audio and video degradation, loss of information, or loss of audio or
Write to DVD±RW/R Write to DVD±R DL
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Write label to
LightScribe CD or
DVD±RW/R
No
Yes
No
Yes
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