[MacDV] Re: Anyone using the Formac DVD burner and software?

[Thubten Kunga]

Dear Craig,
What G3 do you have? Beige, Platinum, B&W or iMac?

I had a B&W G3. I spent $255 for a 550 PowerLogix G4 Zif upgrade that 
runs @ 600 MHz and @300 MHz 1MB L2 cache and $180 for a DVR-105 from 
OfficeMax that easily goes inside the B&W. That was a total of $435 for 
the hardware. Add OS X 10.2 Jaguar for about $100 these days and $49 
for iLife featuring iDVD 3 for a total of $584.

A little more than the $400 for the Formac. But a heck of a lot more 
processing power and up to date system and semi-professional multimedia 
production software.

However Craig, if you can get the Formac used for less than $400 from 
Ric, then maybe that's the way to go if the extra money is a problem. 
I'm worried that you won't be able to use any part of iLife without 
Jaguar. So you'll be falling farther behind for a few hundred 
difference.

Ric's offer is excellent for iMac owners who don't have the choice of 
getting a burner inside.

k

On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 05:24  PM, Craig Busch wrote:

>> Hi,
>> I see that Formac has a DVD burner and software package for about 
>> $400 that will work
>> with a G3 and OS9.  Is anyone using it?  I am no so much concerned 
>> with the "features" as
>> I am with very good encoding to Mpeg2 and being able to do a good 
>> burn job.
>> Thanks
>>
> Yep, I've used it for a few months. It's a great drive (essentially a 
> firewire Pioneer) and the software that comes with it is good, but not 
> as "professional" as iDVD.
>
> However it has many of the iDVD features and the render time while not 
> spectacular is reasonable. I've done many burns with it and they all 
> came out flawless.
>
> In fact, I'm actually selling my Formac external DVD+Software right 
> now because I bought a G4+Superdrive.
>
> If you're interested in it drop me an e-mail, the drive is basically 
> brand new.

Ric Perrott
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