HP Presario 3 Using an optical drive

3 Using an optical drive

An optical drive, such as a DVD-ROM drive, supports optical discs (CDs and DVDs). These discs store or transport information and play music and movies. DVDs have a higher storage capacity than CDs.

Optical drives can read from and select models can write to optical media as described in the following table.

Optical	Read CD	Write to	Write to	Write to	Write label	Write to	Read Blu-	Write to HD
drive type	and DVD-	CD-RW	DVD±RW/	DVD+R DL	to	DVD-RAM	ray DVD-	DVD media
	ROM	media	R media	media	LightScrib	media	ROM
	media				e CD or		media
					DVD±RW/
					R
DVD-ROM	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Drive
HD DVD-R	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
with
SuperMulti
DVD+/-R/
RW Double
Layer
HD-DVD	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
ROM with
SuperMulti
DVD±R/
RW Double
Layer
DVD±RW/	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
R and CD-
RW
Combo
Drive
DVD±RW/	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
R and CD-
RW
Combo
Drive with
Double-
Layer
support
LightScribe	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
DVD±RW/
R and CD-
RW
Combo
Drive with

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