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8X DVD-R burning coming to an iBook/PowerBook/iMac near you.
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The Panasonic UJ-835 is out, finally:
Slot-Loading DVD Super-Multi Drive (OEM) for notebook PC's (12.7mm height)
Features
- 3X Speed DVD-RAM Writing
- 8X Speed DVD-R Writing
- 4X Speed DVD-RW Writing
- 24X Speed CD-R Writing
- 10X Speed CD-RW Writing
- 8X Speed +R Writing
- 4X Speed +RW Writing
- 24X Speed CD-ROM Reading
- 8X Speed DVD-ROM Reading
- Buffer Under Run Protection
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Sound good as long as Apple does not intentionally disable DVD+R/W and DVD-RAM compatibility.
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Originally posted by iPoder:
Sound good as long as Apple does not intentionally disable DVD+R/W and DVD-RAM compatibility.
I agree, although if I had to choose just one of those two, I'd prefer DVD-RAM support over DVD+R/W, since DVD+R/W on OS X pretty much duplicates the functionality of DVD-R/W.
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I would like DVD-RAM functionality too, so I can watch my recorded TV shows from Panasonic recorder on my Mac.
However, Apple is less likely to support DVD-RAM than to support DVD+R/RW. Sadly.
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Originally posted by iPoder:
I would like DVD-RAM functionality too, so I can watch my recorded
TV shows from Panasonic recorder on my Mac.
However, Apple is less likely to support DVD-RAM than to support DVD+R/RW. Sadly.
Well, your Panasonic recorder's discs are DVD-VR DVD-RAM discs, formatted as UDF 2. DVD-RAM read support alone won't help unless OS X has both UDF 2 and DVD-VR support. IIRC, OS X still currently supports neither (although a 3rd party solution exists).
Perhaps Apple will add this functionality to OS X 10.4 Tiger.
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Thanks for the info.
I know the DVD-RAM format is a lot different than DVD-R or DVD+R, but I don't know there is such a product on the MAC to support such format.
Apple does need to support both DVD+R/W and DVD-R/W, because it seems to me that DVD+R/W format is gaining popularity and it advances its technology faster than DVD-R/W camp (i.e. DL support on DVD-R/W is not even official yet).
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BTW, just to be clear, OS X already supports DVD-RAM reading and writing. But that's with other file formats, not UDF 2. OS X does support reading UDF 1.5 though.
It's just that (as you said), Apple has chosen not to support DVD-RAM in the laptop drives in the past for whatever reason, even though the drives support that format. If you plug in an external DVD-RAM drive, DVD-RAM works just fine in OS X, but your Panasonic DVD recorders still won't work for the reasons I posted above.
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The 8X slot-load DVD burner is now available.
$230-300, depending on the machine.
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