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    Burning Blue Ray Discs

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by prostock, Jan 15, 2011.

  1. prostock

    prostock Newbie

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    Hi I bought my wife a sony vaio MODEL# EB37FD and wanted to know if she can burn blueray disks with this laptop. I know you can watch blue ray movies but when I bought it for her I was under the impression it could burn disks as well? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
     
    prostock, Jan 15, 2011
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  2. tanalasta

    tanalasta Notebook Consultant

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    I'm not 100% sure but I have the impression it is a blu-ray player only.

    To burn Blu-Ray, consider a BDX-S500U as an optional accessory. The costs of blu-ray writeable discs are still pricey enough that other alternatives (e.g. hard drive, converting to DIVX if required for video playback) may be preferable.
     
    tanalasta, Jan 16, 2011
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  3. 5ushiMonster

    5ushiMonster Notebook Deity

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    You could try downloading and installing ImgBurn.
    It's a freeware disc burner which I found to be extremely light and unbloated like Roxio (or Nero during the past few months).

    To check whether your drive is a burner:
    - When you first start ImgBurn up, select a mode (any one would do for now).
    - Click on TOOLS at the top.
    - Point towards DRIVE
    - Click on CAPABILITIES

    That should give you an indication of what your drive is capable of burning to (and reading off for that matter).

    If you find that your drive ain't capable of burning to BD, you could uninstall and be done. Though I found that software to be rather nice and stable. Might do better than Roxio which I understand today's VAIOs still come preloaded with.

    I stopped investing in external HDDs after a platter failure sometime last year wrecked a bit of havoc. Burning to BD maybe slow, but for long-term archiving, I don't really think you can beat optical media (provided you store them in ideal, non-humid conditions).
     
    5ushiMonster, Jan 16, 2011
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