Using As An External Disc Drive; About Functions On Windows - Sony VBD-MA1 Operating Instructions Manual

Using as an External Disc Drive

When using as an external disc drive, available functions on Windows differ depending on
version or edition. You need to install a commercially available software for BD/DVD/CD
drive depending on the application. (Software for BD/DVD/CD drive is not supplied.)
For details on requirements for using an external drive, refer to the following table. For
details, refer to "Help and Support" in Windows or the operating instructions of your
software.

About functions on Windows

Reading/Writing data
Operating System
Windows 7
Windows Vista
(SP2)
Windows XP
(SP3)
: functions and operation on Windows are available.
* If you use the "PMB" (Picture Motion Browser) software supplied with Sony cameras, you may need to
install the UDF reader plug-in, depending on a version of "PMB," to recognize a Blu-ray Disc or
AVCHD disc on Windows XP. For details, refer to "Help" or "Support" in "PMB."
Playing a disc/Creating a compatible disc for Blu-ray Disc or DVD players
Operating System
Windows 7 DVD
Windows Vista
AVCHD disc
Windows XP
BD
z Hint
• Examples of usable software and its versions (as of April 2011)
– Writing files to disc
– Playback of AVCHD disc
– Creation of AVCHD disc
– Playback of DVD/Blu-ray Disc
– Creation of DVD/Blu-ray Disc
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Reading files on disc
BD
DVD
CD
BD Supporting software required* Supporting software required
DVD Supporting software required* Supporting software required
CD
Playback/Creation
Depending on the edition of Windows, correspondence
differs.
Supporting software required
Supporting software required
Power2Go (Cyberlink Corp.)
Player for AVCHD ver. 5.3 (Sony Corporation)
PMB-Picture Motion Browser ver. 5.3 (Sony Corporation)
Power DVD 9 (Cyberlink Corp.)
Power Producer 5 (Cyberlink Corp.)
Writing files to disc