Toshiba P50-B, P50t-B Series user manual Optical disc drives, Formats, Using optical disc drives

Optical disc drives

The computer may be installed with a DVD Super Multi drive or Blu-ray™ Writer drive (BDXL™). When the computer is accessing an optical disc, the indicator on the drive glows.

Formats

The drives support the following formats.

DVD Super Multi drive

The drive supports the following formats: CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD- Video, CD-DA, CD-Text, Photo CD™ (single/multi-session), CD-ROM Mode 1/Mode 2, CD-ROM XA Mode 2 (Form1, Form2), Enhanced CD (CD- EXTRA), Addressing Method 2, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R DL (Format1), DVD+R DL.

Blu-ray™ Writer drive

In addition to the above formats, Blu-ray™ Writer drive supports BD-ROM, BD-ROM DL, BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE and BD-RE DL.

Blu-ray™ Writer drive BDXL™

In addition to the above formats, Blu-ray™ Writer drive BDXL™ supports BD-R TL, BD-R QL and BD-RE TL.

Some types and formats of DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL discs may be unreadable.

Using optical disc drives

The full-size drive provides high-performance execution of disc based programs. You can run either 12 cm (4.72") or 8 cm (3.15") discs without an adaptor.

Use the DVD playback application to view DVD-Video discs.

For precautions on writing to discs, refer to the Writing discs section. To load discs, follow the steps as detailed below:

1.When the computer’s power is on, press the eject button to open the disc tray slightly.

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