Minimum System Requirements

Operating System                     

• Microsoft Windows® 8, 7, Vista and XP

Screen Resolution                      

• 1024 x 768 pixels

Memory                                           

• 128 MB SDRAM for data and music burning
• 256 MB DDR RAM for video burning (512 MB recommended)

CPU                                                     

• CD/VCD (MPEG-1) production: Intel Pentium II 450
• DVD (MPEG-2) production: Intel Pentium III 800 MHz, or AMD Athlon 700 MHz (Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz, AMD Athlon 2100+ or above recommended)

Hard Disc Space                          

• 1 GB for making VCDs
• 5-10 GB for making DVDs
• 25 GB for making Blu-ray Discs

Burning Device

• A CD or DVD burner (CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW or DVD-R/RW) is required to burn VCD/DVD/SVCD/AVCHD titles
  • Supported Burning Speeds (CD): 1x, 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x, 20x, 32x, 48x
  • Supported Burning Speeds (DVD): 1x, 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 14x, 16x, 18x, 20x, 22x, 24x
• A Blu-ray disc recordable drive is required to burn Blu-ray Discs
  • Supported Burning Speeds (BD): 1x, 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x

Note: Available disc burning speeds are dependent upon your burning hardware.

File support

Music

• Audio CD, .MP3*, .WMA*, .WAV*, .M4A

Video                                                 

• .AVI, .DAT (MPEG-1), .MPE, .MPG, .MPEG, .ASF, .DVR-MS, .M2T, .M2TS, .MOV, .MOD, .MP4, .MTS, .TS, .TOD, .VOB, .VRO, .WMV, .WTV

Image                                                

• .BMP, .JPE, .JPEG, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, .TIF, .TIFF

*Power2Go 8 includes an audio converter that allows audio file conversion to selected formats (MP3/WAV/WMA).

Disc support

CD                                                        

• CD-R/RW

DVD                                                   

• DVD-R/RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R/RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-RAM

Blu-ray Disc                                    

• BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, BDXL