Playing A Cd; Playing A Dvd; Playing A Blu-Ray Disc; Playing An Hd-Dvd - Gateway DX430X User Manual

Playing a CD

CDs on your computer.
A standard Compact Disc (CD) can hold an entire album of digital songs and can be played on a
CD player or your computer's CD drive.
Use a music program or Windows Media Player on your computer to:
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For more information about playing CDs, see

Playing a DVD

A Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) is similar to a standard CD but has greater data capacity. Because
of this increased capacity, full-length movies, several albums of music, or several gigabytes of
data can fit on a single disc. DVDs can be played on a DVD player or a DVD drive-equipped
computer. For more information about playing DVDs, see

Playing a Blu-ray Disc

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 can be played on a Blu-ray-compatible player or a
Blu-ray drive-equipped computer. For more information about playing Blu-ray Discs, see
music and movies" on page

Playing an HD-DVD

HD-DVD is a high-capacity optical disc that 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. HD-DVDs can be played on an HD-DVD-compatible player or an HD-DVD
drive-equipped computer. For more information about playing HD-DVDs, see
movies" on page

Recording to optical discs

You can use the disc burning program on your computer to copy tracks from a music CD to your
hard drive, copy or create data discs, create music CDs, create video DVDs, and more. For more
information about creating CDs and DVDs, see

Creating audio and video files

You can create audio and music files, either from scratch or from music CDs. You can also create
video files from home video. For more information, see
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Copying optical discs

You can copy optical discs to make backups of your data. For more information, see
and copying data discs" on page
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Important
Some music CDs have copy protection software. You may not be able to play these
Play music CDs
Create MP3 music files from your music CDs
Edit music track information
Use your music files to build a music library
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