Setting Up Your Blu-Ray Disc Drive; Setting Up Your Hd Dvd Drive - Gateway FX530 Reference Manual

Setting up your Blu-ray Disc drive

Setting up your HD DVD drive

Your computer has a Blu-ray Disc™ drive if the
optical disc drive has the following logo on the
front:
Blu-ray Disc is a high-capacity optical disc that
can store much more data than a DVD.
A dual-layer Blu-ray Disc can hold 50 GB of files,
about 23 hours of standard-definition video, or
about nine hours of high-definition video.
Blu-ray Discs are even more durable than CDs
and DVDs. New scratch-resistant coatings make
Blu-ray Discs more resistant to scratching and
smudging.
You do not need to perform any special setup to
enable or use your optional Blu-ray Disc drive.
You can use a Blu-ray Disc drive the same way
you use a DVD or CD drive, because it also reads
any DVD and CD, and can write to recordable
CDs and DVDs. For instructions, see "Using the
CD or DVD drive" in your online User Guide.
Your computer has an HD DVD™ drive if the
optical disc drive has the following logo on the
front:
HD DVDs can store much more data than a DVD.
A dual-layer HD DVD can hold 30 GB of files,
about 14 hours of standard-definition video, or
about 5.5 hours of high-definition video. Your
HD DVD drive is a read-only drive for HD DVDs,
but can write to recordable CDs and DVDs.
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