[G4] Pioneer 107 and DVD media question

[Alex]

On Saturday, Jan 31, 2004, at 04:42 Canada/Eastern, <csean at poc.it> 
wrote:

> DVD media: can you burn copies of DVD movies on
> DVD-RW media?

If the DVD writer supports DVD-RW media, of course.

> Do they play okay on compatible home DVD players?

"Compatible" being the operative word. Most (by far) of current DVD 
players do not support DVD-RW media.

> I've read that in OS X you cane use DVDBackup to copy a DVD video to 
> the
> hard disc, then compress it to fit on a DVD-R/W using DVD2oneX, then 
> burn it
> using Toast Titanium 5 (I don't have 6). Can anyone confirm that this 
> works?

In more than one country, the operation you describe is illegal.

> Also wanted to ask if it's possible to use the internal Pioneer 107 
> with an
> external firewire Combo CDRW/DVD and Toast 5 to make a "direct" copy 
> of a
> DVD?

Depends on what kind of DVD. For most commercial DVD videos, the answer 
is no, because they have copy protection.

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