[Ti] PB17" Superdrive and DV Video? (revisited)

[Kynan Shook]

Something of note: reading DVD-R is only half the speed of reading 
DVD-ROM on both 17" models.  So, if you burn your own disks, the 
maximum reading speed is 4x.  That would make reading speeds 5.52 MBps, 
assuming perfect conditions.  I'm not sure how likely it is for one to 
hit that maximum speed, though.

So, out of curiosity, did you run the 3rd-party SuperDrive firmware 
update that increased a few speeds of various media?  Perhaps DVD-R 
reading speed was increased too...

Benn <joverkamp at earthlink.net> writes:
>> On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 09:01  AM, Benn wrote:
>> After a bit of looking around, I found that for DVD, 1X is 1.38MB/sec.
>>  that would make 8x 11.04MB/sec.  Any idea why the drive would totally
>> choke on a 6.8MB/sec?
>
> This was an OLD enquiry of mine (from last august) and there were many
> responses, but I just burned another disk with DV video and I thought
> someone might be interested to know that now the videos plays fine on
> my 17" powerbook!  The only significant changes since August, I
> believe, are the addition of Panther, and I recently added 256MB more
> RAM to my machine.  Something tells me its something apple changed with
> panther.