Using Optical Discs - HP Presario CQ40-700 - Notebook PC User Manual

Using optical discs

An optical drive, such as a DVD-ROM drive, supports optical discs (CDs and DVDs). These discs store
information, such as music, photos, and movies. DVDs have a higher storage capacity than CDs.
Your optical drive can read standard CD and DVD discs. If your optical drive is a Blu-ray Disc ROM
Drive, it can also read BDs.
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+RW DL Write label to
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
LightScribe CD or
DVD±RW/R
No
Yes
No
Yes
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