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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 your online User Guide.
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 your online User Guide.
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
your online User Guide.
Creating discs
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 your
online User Guide.
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 your online User Guide.
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