Compatible DVD burner for iDVD

Simon Powell

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Mar 13, 2004, 3:03:51 PM3/13/04

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All,
I have a G4 AGP (Sawtooth) and want to put a DVD burner in it to use iDVD to
create films. Having searched USENET I can only be sure that the Pioneer A0x
series of drives are compatible with iDVD. Does anyone know of any other
brands/models that will work easily with iDVD? Reason being is that there
are a lot more readily available and quite frankly cheaper drives than the
Pioneers (I know the price/quality thing but I'm not gonna be using this a
hell of a lot so this shouldn't be an issue) and I would like to try and use
one of these.
Any help massively appreciated.
Cheers in advance
Si.

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Pigeon Hohl

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Mar 13, 2004, 6:43:07 PM3/13/04

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In article <HOJ4c.335$V1...@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>,
"Simon Powell" <si_p...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> All,
> I have a G4 AGP (Sawtooth) and want to put a DVD burner in it to use iDVD to
> create films. Having searched USENET I can only be sure that the Pioneer A0x
> series of drives are compatible with iDVD. Does anyone know of any other
> brands/models that will work easily with iDVD? Reason being is that there
> are a lot more readily available and quite frankly cheaper drives than the
> Pioneers (I know the price/quality thing but I'm not gonna be using this a
> hell of a lot so this shouldn't be an issue) and I would like to try and use
> one of these.

I'm pretty sure just about any model will work, as long
as it's internally mounted, as opposed to external.

Jon B

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Mar 13, 2004, 7:17:34 PM3/13/04

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Pigeon Hohl <pig...@dontfeed.org> wrote:

Unfortunately not, check out www.xlr8yourmac.com and the drive
compatability databases. The Pioneer A0x series and the OEM DVR-10x
series are the most compatible. There are a few other drives that will
work patched under 10.2 and I think there is a patch for 10.3 for some
drives but haven't got round to testing it yet.

Personally I've got a Sony DWU-14 [1] which out of the box doesn't work
with iDVD or iTunes/Finder etc, fortunately I have Toast plus the
original drive in the second bay.

[1] Internally installed MDD G4 with all the master slave settings etc
set as per factory installation.
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Big Bird

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Mar 15, 2004, 6:57:41 PM3/15/04

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In article <HOJ4c.335$V1...@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>,
Simon Powell <si_p...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

< All,
< I have a G4 AGP (Sawtooth) and want to put a DVD burner in it to use iDVD to
< create films. Having searched USENET I can only be sure that the Pioneer A0x
< series of drives are compatible with iDVD. Does anyone know of any other
< brands/models that will work easily with iDVD? Reason being is that there
< are a lot more readily available and quite frankly cheaper drives than the
< Pioneers (I know the price/quality thing but I'm not gonna be using this a

What kind of prices are you seeing for the Pioneers and for the other brands?

Mark Geary
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Matthew Smith

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Mar 20, 2004, 10:14:53 AM3/20/04

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In article <f0N4c.36933$aT1....@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
Pigeon Hohl <pig...@dontfeed.org> wrote:

Concerning external drives, an easter egg has been discovered in iDVD 4
that allows burning to external drives or the creation of a .dmg file
for burning on another machine! Check out this weblink for more
information and a tiny (below 1KB) download!

http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=23370

Matthew