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picture quality on your HDTV, you should get a Blu-ray Disc player and use

Blu-ray Discs in place of DVDs. Most new computer systems don’t come

standard with optical drives installed. You can often custom-order a system

with a Blu-ray Disc drive or you can simply connect one yourself. Figure 10-

57 shows a Blu-ray Disc drive.

Figure 10-57 A combination CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc drive

BD-R and BD-RE Blu-ray Discs come in two writable formats, BD-R

(recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable). You can write to a BD-R disc one

time. You can write to and erase a BD-RE disc several times. There are also

BD-R and BD-RE versions of mini Blu-ray Discs.

Installing Optical Drives

From ten feet away, optical drives of all flavors look absolutely identical.

Figure 10-58 shows a CD-RW drive, a DVD drive, and a BD-R drive. Can

you tell them apart just by a glance? In case you were wondering, the CD-

RW drive is on the bottom, the DVD drive is next, and finally the BD-R drive

is on the top. If you look closely at an optical drive, you will normally see its

function either stamped on the front of the case or printed on a label

somewhere less obvious (see Figure 10-59).

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