Teac A200 CDs, CD-R, DVDs, China, CD-RW, DVD-R, Writable discs, 1Canada, United States, South America, Caribbean, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Code Region

The Grand Tour

Optical Disc drive

The computer has a dual layer DVD Super Multi drive supporting ±R Double Layer. An ATAPI interface controller is used for the operation of these optical drives. When the computer is accessing a disc, an indicator on the drive glows.

Region codes for DVD drives and media

The disc drive and its media are manufactured according to the specifications of six marketing regions. When you purchase DVD-Video, make sure it matches your drive, otherwise it will not play properly.

Code Region1Canada, United States

2	Japan, Europe, South Africa, Middle East
3	Southeast Asia, East Asia
4	Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central America,
	South America, Caribbean
5	Russia, Indian Subcontinent, Africa, North Korea, Mongolia
6	China

Writable discs

This section describes the types of writable discs. Check the specifications for your drive to for the type of discs it can write. Use TOSHIBA Disc Creator to write compact discs. Refer to Chapter 4, Operating Basics.

CDs

nCD-R discs can be written only once. The recorded data cannot be erased or changed.

nCD-RW discs can be recorded more than once. Use either 1x, 2x, or 4x multi-speed CD-RW discs or high-speed 4x to 10x discs. The write speed of ultra-speed CD-RW discs is a maximum of 24x speed.

DVDs

nDVD-R and DVD+R discs can be written only once. The recorded data cannot be erased or changed.

nDVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM discs can be recorded more than once.

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