Chapter 3: Setting Up and Getting Started
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Playing discs
Playing a CD
A standard compact disc (
CD
) can hold an entire album of
digital songs and can be played on a CD player or your
computer’s CD drive.
Use a music program or Windows Media Player on your
computer to:
•
Play music CDs
•
Create MP3 music files from your music CDs
•
Edit music track information
•
Use your music files to build a music library
For more information about playing CDs, see your online
User
Guide
.
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
.
Blu-ray Disc
Installing programs, playing
audio CDs, playing DVDs,
playing Blu-ray Discs,
accessing data, and recording
video and data to CDs,
DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW,
and Blu-ray discs.
HD-DVD
Installing programs, playing
audio CDs, playing DVDs and
HD-DVDs, accessing data, and
recording video and data to
CDs, DVD-RAM, DVD-R,
DVD-RW, and HD-DVD discs.
Important
Some music CDs have copy protection software. You may not be able
to play these CDs on your computer.
If your optical drive has
this logo...
Your drive type
is...
Use your drive for...
Summary of Contents for H5082
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Page 10: ...Chapter 1 About This Reference 4 ...
Page 11: ...Chapter 2 5 Checking Out Your Computer Front Back ...
Page 16: ...Chapter 2 Checking Out Your Computer 10 ...
Page 122: ...Appendix A Legal Notices 116 ...
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Page 142: ...Chapitre 1 À propos de ce guide 4 ...
Page 143: ...Chapitre 2 5 Vérification de votre ordinateur Avant Arrière ...
Page 148: ...Chapitre 2 Vérification de votre ordinateur 10 ...
Page 172: ...Chapitre 3 Installation et initiation 34 ...
Page 198: ...Chapitre 4 Mise à niveau de votre ordinateur 60 ...
Page 250: ...Chapitre 6 Dépannage 112 ...
Page 260: ...Annexe A Informations légales 122 ...
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