Helpful tips – Dell Vostro 1000 (Mid 2007) User Manual

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Using Multimedia

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DVD-Writable Drives

Helpful Tips

Use Microsoft

®

Windows

®

Explorer to drag and drop files to a CD-R or

CD-RW only after you start Sonic DigitalMedia and open a DigitalMedia
project.

Use CD-Rs to burn music CDs that you want to play in regular stereos.
CD-RWs do not play in most home or car stereos.

You cannot create audio DVDs with Sonic DigitalMedia.

Music MP3 files can be played only on MP3 players or on computers that
have MP3 software installed.

Commercially available DVD players used in home theater systems may
not support all available DVD formats. For a list of formats supported by
your DVD player, see the documentation provided with your DVD player
or contact the manufacturer.

Do not burn a blank CD-R or CD-RW to its maximum capacity; for
example, do not copy a 650-MB file to a blank 650-MB CD. The CD-RW
drive needs 1–2 MB of the blank space to finalize the recording.

Media Type

Read

Write

Rewritable

CD-R

Yes

Yes

No

CD-RW

Yes

Yes

Yes

DVD+R

Yes

Yes

No

DVD-R

Yes

Yes

No

DVD+RW

Yes

Yes

Yes

DVD-RW

Yes

Yes

Yes

DVD+R DL

Yes

Yes

No

DVD-R DL

Maybe

No

No

DVD-RAM

Maybe

No

No

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