Toshiba SATELLITE A500 - Manual (Page 104)

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Satellite A500/A500D
Function buttons
This section describes the Function buttons.
Seven buttons are provided with some models.
Figure 4-8 Function button
Writing CD/DVD/BD on DVD Super Multi drives or BD Writer
drives or BD Combo drives
You can use the DVD SuperMulti drive or BD Writer drives or BD Combo
drives to write data to either CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R (Dual Layer),
DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R (Double Layer), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R
(Dual Layer) or BD-R/BD-RE discs.
TOSHIBA Disc Creator and Corel DVD MovieFactory (BD Writer drive only)
are provided as writing software with this computer.
Corel DVD MovieFactory can be used to write files in video format.
TOSHIBA Disc Creator can be used to write data.
Icon Function button DVD/BD *CD/None
Eco
CD/DVD/BD Launch WinDVD BD
for TOSHIBA or
TOSHIBA DVD Player
depends on a disc in
the optical disc drive. Launch Windows
Media Player
Play/Pause Play/Pause Play/Pause
Previous Previous chapter Previous track
Next Next chapter Next track
Mute Mute Mute
Volume UP and
DOWN Volume UP/DOWN Volume UP/DOWN
The optical drive installed on this computer cannot write multiple sessions
on DVD-R Dual Layer disc sessions. Once a disc has been written to once,
it will be finalized. Once finalized, no further writing to the disc will be
possible regardless of what portion of the total disc capacity was used.