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| | Burner buying guide - CNET reviews |
 | | With a burner, discs are loaded and unloaded via a sliding tray (aside from Macs and notebooks, few DVD drives are of the slot-loading variety), and they're read using a laser, just like in your CD or DVD player. |
 | | Burners use a few different kinds of discs, each for a slightly different task. |
 | | Additionally, most CD and DVD burners can also read and write data on rewritable discs, which you can rewrite over and over again (about 1,000 times); a rewritable CD is referred to as a CD-RW, and rewritable DVDs come in a few formats, including DVD+RW, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM. |
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