Toshiba SATELLITE A500 - Manual (Page 29)

User’s Manual 1-7
Satellite A500/A500D
BD Writer drive The drive reads BD-ROM’s at a maximum 6x
speed and DVD-ROM’s at a maximum 8x speed
and CD-ROM’s at a maximum 24x speed, and
writes CD-R’s at up to 24x speed, CD-RW’s at up
to 16x speed, DVD-RW’s at up to 6x speed,
DVD-R’s, DVD+R’s and DVD+RW’s at up to 8x
speed, DVD-R (Dual layer) at up to 4x speed,
DVD+R (Double Layer) at up to 4x speed,
DVD-RAM’s at up to 5x speed, BD-R’s at up to
6x speed, BD-R (DL) at 4x speed, BD-RE’s at up
to 2x speed and BD-RE (DL) at up to 2x speed,
and supports the following formats:
■ CD-DA
■ CD-ROM
■ CD-ROM XA
■ PhotoCD (multisession)
■ Video CD
■ CD-Extra (CD+)
■ CD-Text
■ Hybrid SACD
■ DVD-Video
■ DVD-ROM
■ DVD-R
■ DVD-RW
■ DVD-R (DL)
■ DVD+R
■ DVD+RW
■ DVD+R (DL)
■ DVD-RAM
■ BD-ROM
■ BD-R
■ BD-RE
■ BD-R(DL)
■ BD-RE(DL)