Chapter 1. About the Blu-ray drive
This manual provides information on registering, installing, and using the ThinkPad® Ultrabay™ Blu-ray Drive, and is available on the Software and User's Guide CD.
The appendixes of this guide contain warranty information and legal notices.
Product description
Your Blu-ray drive is compatible with the DVD-Multi Recorder specification, and can record as well as read DVD-RAM, DVD-/+RW, and DVD-/+R (for General, 650 nm) media. (Some DVD+R and DVD+RW media brands may not be compatible.) Your Blu-ray drive can also record CD-R, CD-RW, and High-Speed CD-RW media, and uses buffer underrun prevention technology for reliable CD burning. Your Blu-ray drive can read many other formats including DVD Video, Video CD, audio CD, multiple-session, extended architecture (XA) CDs, and Kodak Photo CDs. The Blu-ray drive is designed for installation in your Ultrabay Drive Bay.
In addition to this Software and User's Guide CD, your option package includes the following:
vThinkPad Ultrabay Blu-ray Drive
vQuick Reference Guide
vLaser Safety Guide
Contact your place of purchase if an item is missing or damaged. Be sure to retain your proof of purchase. It might be required to receive warranty service. See Appendix D, “Service and Support,” on page D-1for technical support information.
Software description
Your Blu-ray Drive User's Guide and Software CD contains the following software:
vIntervideo WinDVD 8
This software enables you to play back DVD and Blu-ray videos on your computer or to play video files from your hard disk drive.
Note: Most graphics adapters cannot support playback of high bit rate Blu-ray videos.
vUlead DVD Movie Factory 5
This software enables you to record data and videos to BD-R and BD-RE discs.
Installation requirements
To install the Blu-ray drive, your ThinkPad computer must contain either the Microsoft® Windows® Vista® or Microsoft Windows XP operating systems.
Also, to enable satisfactory playback of Blu-ray video, your ThinkPad computer must contain either the NVIDIA GeForce or Quadro 7300 Series discrete graphics adapter.
Note: Lenovo offers no support for Blu-ray playback or recording on computers with Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) desktop operating systems.
