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Product Inquiry
03. Are there any drivers to download?
All Sony Optiarc CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives are ATAPI-devices. There is no need for special drivers when using operating systems like Linux, MacOS or Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Win 7. The devices will be handled by the embedded drivers from the operatingsystem.
DVD-RAM works at least with Nero InCD version 4.3.20.1. Under Windows XP, DVD-RAM media can also be written without any driver and writing software. In this case, please follow instructions on Microsoft knowledge database www.microsoft.com [article 283588 and 826510]
You also need software to view DVD movies or write data. Only Retail drives are sold with accessories and playback/writing sofware. For other drives, you will have to purchase the software seperately. Our devices were tested successfully with following ones:
- Power DVD (http://www.gocyberlink.com)
- Win DVD (http://www.intervideo.com)
- Cineplayer (http://www.cineplayer.com)
- Nero ShowTime (http://www.nero.com)
Please note: In most cases it is not enough to use only windows media player or some kind of freeware player, because they do not include the necessary media codecs.
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