... Is it possible, for someone on a Windoze box.. to burn a DVD data disc, that is not viewable/loadable on a Macintosh with a DVD reader ? ... Sure. I can burn a disk on a Windows box that isn't viewable from another Windows box. If I create a proprietary format and don't give you a reeader, you're sunk. The disks themselves are interchangable and there's nothing in the format to keep any other machine out. Note that even if you use proprietary encodings such as WMP, a Mac running a Windows emulator can still view them. What's more to the point: why do you care? Craig