[CUBE] Re-review of MCE superdrive

[Rob In der Maur]

Hi J.C.

So, let me get this straight: you are burning 4x DVD's in the MCE 
Superdrive (which can only burn at max 1x) and that seems to give you 
better compatibility with your home player? Interesting, as I've had no 
luck sofar in using any of the DVD's I burnt with my MCE Superdrive in 
my home DVD player (Verbatim, Nashua, Apple (2x)). Possibly related to 
my home DVD player. Anyway, I have a couple of other media to try but I 
think I add the Apple 4x media in the equation...

cheers,
Rob

On Thursday, Apr 24, 2003, at 20:50 Europe/Amsterdam, J.C. Webber III 
wrote:

> I had earlier expressed some disappointment in the results I obtained
> burning DVDs on my cube using my new MCE internal slot-loading 
> superdrive.
>
> I have since had the opportunity to try again using the 4X media 
> instead
> of the 2X I used in my initial attempts.
>
> The results this time were quite satisfactory with one caveat, which
> is probably not the fault of the superdrive.  I was listening to iTunes
> while burning one of my iDVD projects and the speakers went out.
> I suspect this is the infamous USB problem some of you on this list
> have experienced.  This is my first experience with this problem and
> it was a bad one.  The iDVD burning session hung with only 6 minutes
> left.  In fact, the entire workstation hung to the point where I had
> to do a hard reset.  I could still ping it from other machines on my
> LAN, but I could not ssh into it to kill off the hung processes.  A
> complete reboot was my only remedy.  Turned that DVD into a coaster 
> 8^(.
>
> But subsequent attempts were successful and I was able to play the
> resulting DVDs on both my iBook and a commercial DVD player.  I opted
> for leaving the system alone while the burning was in progress.  No
> iTunes this time.
>
> Just wanted to give yaw'll an update....
> -- 
> J.C. Webber III
> Technical Lead, Unix System Administrator
> jcw at kingoblio.com (home) www.kingoblio.com