I have some good thoghts about Dvd playback and Apple. Now apples imacs right now don’t have any dvd drives in them right now. Now is it possible to go out and by an external dvd drive like firewire Dvd/CD-RW and connect it to the imacs or any other like system and watch a DVD movie. Since apple uses software encoding this should be 100% yes answer, right.

I have some good thoghts about Dvd playback and Apple. Now apples imacs right now don’t have any dvd drives in them right now. Now is it possible to go out and by an external dvd drive like firewire Dvd/CD-RW and connect it to the imacs or any other like system and watch a DVD movie. Since apple uses software encoding this should be 100% yes answer, right.

Why don’t Apple make computers with both a CD-RW and a CD-ROM?? Not in one drive buth with two weperate drives? This IS THE WAY people want it to copy CD-ROM’s!

Why don’t Apple make computers with both a CD-RW and a CD-ROM?? Not in one drive buth with two weperate drives? This IS THE WAY people want it to copy CD-ROM’s!

Having dual drives in a computer is practically building it to facilitate piracy.  That’s not what Apple is going for.  The idea is rip your own CDs to a collection of music and have it for future use so you can listen on your computer and burn custom mixes later.

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On 2001-07-25 09:38, slayman wrote:
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Also, OS X WILL be much better with DVD playback. Everything is much better in OS X.

Sorry Slayman, can’t agree there.  CD playback is worse on OS X than on OS 9.1 on my PB 400 pizmo, with static noise and stuttering.  So unless buffering is improved I would expect DVD playback to be worse on my machine.  Hopefully only a temporary problem.

Cheers,

Bill

On 2001-07-26 02:26, David Nelson wrote:

Why don’t Apple make computers with both a CD-RW and a CD-ROM?? Not in one drive buth with two weperate drives? This IS THE WAY people want it to copy CD-ROM’s!

Having dual drives in a computer is practically building it to facilitate piracy.  That’s not what Apple is going for.  The idea is rip your own CDs to a collection of music and have it for future use so you can listen on your computer and burn custom mixes later.

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David Nelson
Mac Observer Forum Mod

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Apple does not bundle dual drives because it lacks room.
Does anybody know whether imac CD/RW mechanics are still notebook-style ? If so, in an imac, you have only room for _half_ a full-size drive.
As for G4s, with a change in design, there is still only _1_ excess front bay. Shipping dual drives would forclude any poss. of further extension.
Indeed, you can have anything external, in the good mac-style SCSI tradition.
The only problem is the cost, but if you’re unwilling to pay for it,
<flamebait> go out and buy a ... </flamebait>
Anyway, i would like a low-end tower (or at least a machine that’s expansible internally) but marketing people rulez…

DVDs ended up on desktops because computer makers thought that the massive capacity of the disks would naturally lead software developers to put out titles on DVD. (Remember, they’re “Digital Versatile Discs.”) They were way-off. The quantity of DVD-based software is marginal, and even DVD audio is only just getting going. DVD movies have dominated the technology, and thus have become most closely associated with it.

Compare this to CD-ROM, which is cheap, ubiquitous and handles both audio and data well. Economy of scale has allowed manufacturers to bring the cost of recordable CD-ROMs down to within everyone’s budget.

DVDs will become standardized as the “only” storage device, because DVDRW (or whichever format wins out) will eventually come down in price, show up in consumer electronics and displace the VCR, even, as the television/movie recorder of choice.

I predict by 2004, there will be no more VCRs made; all new video recorders will be of a Tivio-like device: a hard-drive for temporary storage of a day or so of video, and a DVD reader/writer for playing and permanent storage.

I have high hopes for DVD playback with OS X 10.1… The player looked really cool… and the speed was definately nice… I just hope it translates well to the G3 processor as well. 

That would make 10.1 such a wonderful thing.

Hey, does anyone know if DVD Studio Pro definately WONT run on a G3?  (Not that you’d want to, just wondering if it was possible).