Satellite A500/A500D
Function buttons
This section describes the Function buttons.
Seven buttons are provided with some models.
Icon
Function button
Eco
CD/DVD/BD
Play/Pause
Previous
Next
Mute
Volume UP and
DOWN
Writing CD/DVD/BD on DVD Super Multi drives or BD Writer
drives
The optical drive installed on this computer cannot write multiple sessions
on DVD-R Dual Layer disc sessions. Once a disc has been written to once,
it will be finalized. Once finalized, no further writing to the disc will be
possible regardless of what portion of the total disc capacity was used.
You can use the DVD SuperMulti drive or BD Writer drives to write data to
either CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R (Dual Layer), DVD-RW, DVD+R,
DVD+R (Double Layer), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R (Dual Layer) or BD-
R/BD-RE discs.
TOSHIBA Disc Creator and Corel DVD MovieFactory are provided as
writing software with this computer.
Corel DVD MovieFactory can be used to write files in video format.
TOSHIBA Disc Creator can be used to write data.
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Figure 4-8 Function button
DVD/BD
Launch WinDVD BD
for TOSHIBA or
TOSHIBA DVD Player
depends on a disc in
the optical disc drive.
Play/Pause
Previous chapter
Next chapter
Mute
Volume UP/DOWN
*CD/None
Launch Windows
Media Player
Play/Pause
Previous track
Next track
Mute
Volume UP/DOWN
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