Re DVD & CDs: Win 10 will burn and play data DVDs & CDs. Via the media player, it will burn audio CDs. This is the same as Win 7 and Win 8/8.1. In a near-future update, it will play video DVDs (on most versions of Win 10). The only thing I think it cannot do is create and burn a video DVD. There are free tools that will take care of that part.