Sony BDX-S500U - Manual (Page 15)

BD/DVD/CD Rewritable Drive User's Guide -- Compatible Discs
DVD-ROM drive and the DVD player and on the logical format selected when it is recorded (written).
DVD+RW and DVD-RW Discs
Data can be repeatedly written to or erased from this type of disc. Typically, a new DVD+RW or DVD-RW disc can be rewritten about 1,000 times. Playback (read) compatibility of DVD+RW
and DVD-RW discs depends on the capability of the DVD-ROM drive and the DVD player and on the logical format selected when it is recorded (written).
DVD-RAM Discs
Data can be repeatedly written to or erased from this type of disc. Typically, a new DVD-RAM disc can be rewritten about 100,000 times. To play back (or read the data on) a DVD-RAM disc,
a DVD-ROM drive or DVD player that supports DVD-RAM discs is required.
About playback/reading compatibility in DVDs
DVD+R DL/DVD+R/DVD-R DL/DVD-R discs, as well as DVD+RW and DVD-RW discs created and finalized with the drive can be played back on almost all DVD-ROM drives. However
depending on the type of your drive, playback of DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, and DVD-RW discs may not be supported.
In addition, some drives do not support multi-session (DVD+R DL/DVD+R/ DVD+RW) or multi-border (DVD-R DL/DVD-R/DVD-RW). In these cases, you can only play back the disc in single-
session (DVD+R DL/DVD+R/DVD+RW) or single-border (DVD-R DL/DVD-R/DVD-RW).
Also, DVD-Video discs created with the drive can be played back on many standard DVD players. However depending on the type of your player, playback of DVD+RW and DVD-RW discs
may not be supported.
Playback of DVD-RAM discs is only supported for DVD-RAM compatible DVD drives and DVD players.
Further, because of the differences in quality and characteristics between various DVD-ROM drive, DVD player, DVD+R DL disc, DVD+R disc, DVD+RW disc, DVD-R DL disc, DVD-R disc,
DVD-RW disc and DVD-RAM disc manufacturers, playback may not be possible depending on the combination. (Playback compatibility is not under warranty.)
Writable BDs and compatibility
This drive can write to BD-R 25GB, BD-R 50GB, BD-RE 25GB, and BD-RE 50GB discs when used with writing software. Data can be written to BD-R 25GB and BD-R 50GB discs only once,
and once it has been written, it cannot be erased. With BD-RE 25GB and BD-RE 50GB discs, data can be written and erased repeatedly.
Note
This drive can write data in BDAV/BDMV format to BD-R 25GB, BD-R 50GB, BD-RE 25GB and BD-RE 50GB discs.
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