Using Optical Discs (Cds, Dvds, And Bds) - HP Pavilion dv8-1000 - Entertainment Notebook PC User Manual

Using optical discs (CDs, DVDs, and BDs)

An optical drive, such as a DVD-ROM drive, supports optical discs (CDs, DVDs, and BDs). These discs
store information, such as music, photos, and movies. DVDs and BDs 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 (BD) 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
BD R/RE
SuperMulti Drive
BD ROM DVD±R/
RW SuperMulti
DL Drive
BD 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 CD or DVD.
Write to CD-RW Write to DVD±RW/
R
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
To prevent possible audio and video degradation, loss of information, or loss of audio or
Write to DVD+R Write label to
DL LightScribe CD or
DVD±RW/R
Yes No
Yes No
Yes Yes
Using optical discs (CDs, DVDs, and BDs)
Write to BD R/RE
Yes
No
No
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