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

[Benn]

On Mar 18, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Kynan Shook wrote:
> 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.

That is quite interesting, especially since that would mean the DV, 
which is 6.4MB/sec, would have to be read faster than the drive could 
handle!

> 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...

I did not.  Instead, I went out and bought a bunch of 1x media so I 
wouldn't be tempted to do it ;-)

Benn