Kanguru BRRW USB2.0 Bluray Burner v1 - Manual (Page 6)

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2. General Operation
Please carefully read the following instructions and make sure you understand them completely. For
ease of use, please print this manual for reference.
Before first use
• Don’t move the drive suddenly from a cold place to warm one.
• Make sure to remove the disc before moving the drive.
• Prevent foreign objects, such as liquids or metal, from entering the drive.
• Don’t interrupt the electric power while the drive is operating.
2.1 Playing Blu-ray movies
To play a Blu-ray movie on your computer, there are several things you will need in addition to your
Kanguru BD-RE Blu-ray drive. First you will need Blu-ray playback software and HDCP supported
hardware.
Important! Due to copyright protection features, certain requirements must be met in order to
playback BD and HD DVD movies on a computer. When using digital video connections, both your
monitor and graphics card must support High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). Please
refer to your monitor or graphic card manufacturer’s web site to see if your hardware supports HDCP.
Some video cards that currently support HDCP:
• nVIDIA: GeForce 7800 GTX 512 / 7900 GT / 7900 GX2 / 7900 GTX / 7950 GX2 / 8600 GS /
8600 GT / 8600 GTS / 8800 GTX or higher with 256MB min memory.
• ATI: Radeon® X1950/ HD2300/ HD2400/ HD2600 series or higher with 256MB min memory.
Graphic card driver shall meet AACS compliance criteria. Please consult your graphics card vendor
for proper driver solution.
Note: Apple has not officially supported Blu-ray playback in Mac OS X yet. There are currently no
applications for playback of HDCP video for Mac OS X.
2.2 Burning to optical media
Kanguru recommends using the following brands of media for burning:
• BD-R Maxell, TDK, Philips, LG
• BD-RE Maxell, TDK, Philips, Sony, Panasonic
• DVD+R Sony, Verbatim/Mitsubishi Chemical, Taiyo Yuden, Ricoh, Philips
• DVD+RW Sony, Verbatim/Mitsubishi Chemical, Ricoh, Philips
• DVD-R Sony, Verbatim/Mitsubishi Chemical, Taiyo Yuden, Maxell, TDK, Philips
• DVD-RW Sony, Verbatim/Mitsubishi Chemical, TDK, Philips
• CD-R Sony, Verbatim/Mitsubishi Chemical, Taiyo Yuden, Maxell, Philips
• CD-RW Sony, Verbatim/Mitsubishi Chemical, Philips
Compatibility issues with read/write functions may occur depending on the media manufacturing
quality. Please note that even among the media manufacturers listed above, some media may exist
that is not compatible.
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