How many PB owners use SuperDrive?

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satchmosatchmo
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Firstly, excuse my ignorance, but I'm wondering what the benefits of a SuperDrive are.



When the new 15" PB does arrive, I'm wondering what config would suit me best. Obviously, a combo drive is mimimum but do I need a Superdrive?



I realize a Superdrive is necessary to use iDVD, but are there significantly faster external DVD burners out there that can play back on your home DVD player?

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    joe_itjoe_it Posts: 12member
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    When the new 15" PB does arrive, I'm wondering what config would suit me best. Obviously, a combo drive is mimimum but do I need a Superdrive?



    1. You can use them to store MORE data than a CD so you could use the superdrive for backups.



    Quote:

    I realize a Superdrive is necessary to use iDVD, but are there significantly faster external DVD burners out there that can play back on your home DVD player?



    2. None that I am aware of that will allow you to burn and watch DVD's on your TV. You would need to have a remote in order to work something like that.. Your powerbook will do video out, but if you want something that you could use for your home theatre system, you would probably want to go with a video out card that has RCA outputs.. In other words, go with a tower.



    Joe
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    malokatamalokata Posts: 197member
    I use it all the time, for backup, big wasteful files, and to send my relative's family videos.



    And the DVD's from it work on all commercial DVD players I've encountered.
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    mark_wilkinsmark_wilkins Posts: 154member
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    Originally posted by joe_it

    2. None that I am aware of that will allow you to burn and watch DVD's on your TV.





    If you get yourself a copy of Roxio Toast Titanium and DVD Studio Pro, you can author DVDs using an external DVD-R drive. I do this with a LaCie DVD-R drive that works really well.



    You need both DVD Studio Pro and Toast because DVD SP is used to author the content and Toast burns the discs. DVD-SP can control some non-Apple DVD-R drives but I'm not sure that it supports external FireWire drives, or at least it doesn't support mine.



    iDVD will not work because it requires an Apple drive.



    Note that the drive plus the software costs about $1000.



    -- Mark
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