[MacDV] Re: Pioneer DVD Burner 107D

[Jeff Carruthers]

Karl: the Pioneer burner should work without any problems. The proof is 
in the pudding.

Try burning DVDs from the desktop (insert a blank DVD-R, give it a 
name, transfer lots of files to backup to, then click on the burn baby 
symbol next to the DVD in your sidepanel in the finder window). It 
should work.

A tougher test is to burn a DVD in iDVD.

I have earlier models of the Pioneer DVD in my G4s and they work fine. 
There's a hack available to boost the right speed for the DVD burner, 
but I haven't tried that. The lore is that the faster the burn, the 
lower the longevity of the resulting disk.

Jeff
On Jul 16, 2004, at 10:14 AM, ksay11081 at mac.com wrote:

> This may have been discussed in the past, but I have an after market 
> Pioneer DVD 107D burner installed on my G4 Sawtooth/Dual 
> 500Mhz/200G/1.3MB.  I have Mac OS 10.2.8 installed.  According to 
> Apple System Profiler the drive is "not supported".  Obviously I need 
> to use the drive for burning DVDs -- and I'd like to play region free 
> DVDs.  Is there a firmware update fix for this or must I upgrade to 
> Panther?  I've done an internet search and most of the information I 
> find sounds confusing and contradictory with a lot of warnings about 
> 'unsupported' hacks, etc.  I would appreciate and help.  Thanks.
>
> Karl
>

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