[CUBE] iDVD hack

[George Pepper]

Yup... I just heard that a couple of companies got "Cease and Desist" 
orders from Apple because their third-party DVD R/W drives were set up 
to work with Apple's DVD Player from the factory [Wonder who THAT could 
be ;^)]... And, detected hacks are notoriously squashed when they are 
found... I can totally see Apple's point on this: If a third-party 
vendor wants to be supported by Apple, they should pay a licensing 
fee... And, if Apple doesn't want to issue licenses, for whatever 
reason, that is of course their right [I'm guessing Apple wants to sell 
as many high-end drives in their products as possible]... Apple has 
enough pressure on them due to their small market share and relatively 
high pricing [When was the last time you bought a brand-new Mac?... My 
Cube, 15" TFT, and 23" HD Display were all refurbs I bought from the 
Apple Store; Got the Xserve off of E-Bay, and the TiBook was used 
through a vendor... Only my G3 500 dual-USB iBook, 5GB iPod, and 
AirPort BS were bought new, and the AirPort was a close-out deal when 
the Extreme version came out]...

Hacks, of course, are... well... hacks... I, for one, won't use the 
iDVD hack: Toast works just fine for what I do, and I can burn to the 
LaCie from any iApp EXCEPT iDVD, which I have no desire to use at this 
point anyway...

I'm diggin' the VLC Media Player free-ware though! ;^)...

Pep


On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 06:41  PM, Allan Hise wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Chip Everts wrote:
>
>> Yes. This sure makes me want to buy an external DVD-R and a cube
>> upgrade. Would still be cheaper than a new Mac at this point.
>>
>
> I wouldn't count on Apple leaving this feature in past the next
> maintainence upgrade...
>
> Allan
>
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