[MacDV] Why I love my mac

[Ronald Woodland]

Interesting.  In contrast to these comments, I have had just the 
opposite experience.  The DVDs that I burn on my mac, using either iDVD 
or DVD Studio Pro, work perfectly everywhere.  I have yet to find a DVD 
player in which they will not play, older players included.  I don't 
understand what the concern is.

That said, the next generation of burners are beginning to appear.  
These will burn both sides and increase the capacity to almost 9 GB, 
with commercial software of course.  From what I've read, the 
dual-sided DVDs will require the DVD+R format to work, but I'm not sure 
of that.  I haven't looked into this because I haven't needed it yet, 
but I expect Apple to support these drives too.  I know that the 
Superdrive in the G5 in my office has the ability to burn DVD+R format, 
but the software from Apple does not allow that yet.  Anyone have more 
insight on this?  Specifically, what value is DVD+R over the DVD-R 
format for single-sided DVDs.

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On Jan 19, 2004, at 4:47 AM, barry ellman wrote:

> Dear DV enthusiasts,
>
>> It makes a DVD-R, which is what its supposed to do.  It may be news to
>> you that there's a difference between brands of DVD-Rs and that 
>> players
>> don't read factory pressed disks and DVD-Rs equally well. But that's
>> the state of the art.
>
> Wow. Looks like my instincts were correct. I just purchased an 
> I-bookG4 and decided to wait a little while before getting involved 
> with burning DVs (and spending the extra money on the superdrive).
>
> I've been doing Macs since '83, but as a "user", not a engineer type. 
> I did fudge a bit of software to get my original mac to talk to a 
> modem, but that was fun.
>
> I love my mac because it has always been intuitive, in contrast to the 
> PCs I've used, especially before Windows.
>
> DVs burned on a Mac should play in any player if the Mac is going to 
> be useful. If it doesn't like the media that's loaded, it should tell 
> you so with a pop up prompt. When I rent a DVD, it plays anywhere. Why 
> should a burned DV be any different? At least, that's what us "Users" 
> will think. We are not looking for puzzles to solve.
>
> I bought my first I-Mac (limited edition DV version) to do movies, and 
> then found out the I-Movie 1 wouldn't import any of the media I had. 
> Was a serious disappointment.
>
> Now, I see that the new "burners" of DV will be a problem for a while 
> till the technology catches up for the consumer. I'll wait, thank you.
>
> later, barry