DVD/Blu-Ray Combo Drives

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http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?...
Is it safe to assume that this drive would have DVD and CD (and possibly blu-ray) writing capabilities even though the world "recordable" is nowhere in the product description? Does this mean the drive only reads these kinds of discs and cannot write to them? If there is any way to know for sure if this desciption implies that it is fully capable of writing DVDs and CDs in addition to playing blu-ray discs, I would gladly appreciate a response!
Thank you,
--Olmos117

Zehn,
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