[Ti] DVD-RW

[wes]

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On Friday, April 25, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

>>> I was under the impression that the Superdrive in the PB17" would 
>>> write to
>>> DVD-RW discs but there is no mention of this in PB manual.  Anyone 
>>> know what
>>> the position is with DVD-RW & the Superdrive?
>>
>> Go to Apple System Profiler under the Utilities menu. If your
>> Superdrive is listed as a Matshita on the Devices and Volumes tab
>> (click the arrow next to the box that says CD-RW/DVD-R then no it does
>> NOT support DVD-RW. My new 12" PB has the Matshita Superdrive and 
>> after
>> long calls with tech support, engineering finally agreed that this
>> model does NOT support DVD-RW blank media.
>>
>> Please note, that the Superdrives in the towers are based on a Pioneer
>> model that does support DVD-RW (hence the Apple Technical Article that
>> DVD-RW might work).
>
> And for clarification: Is DVD-R the writable DVD type while the DVD-RW 
> is the re-writable DVD?

Yes, DVD-R is write-once media, DVD-RW is re-write media. And to make 
things even more confusing, there are DVD+R and DVD+RW media formats, 
but neither are supported by the Superdrives so you don't have to worry 
about those.


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