[rjpcmc]

It would be nice if Pioneer announced a FireWire SuperDrive for those with existing G4's or even iMacs where the encoding would take much, much longer.

[Scott_H]

Moving to Multimedia & DV

[Demonhood]

According to XLR8YourMac they have. $990 for the external firewire DVD-R.

[q3ded]

Even so, iDVD is only bundled with SuperDrives from Apple, and only work with those internal drive. DSP would probably write to it, but its 2.0general dvd-r materal, you'd want Pioneer's upcoming authoring drive for any serious authoring ($1400 I heard).

Now if Apple sells iDVD.... hmmm.... like a d/l.....

[dbergstrom]

Why should iDVD only work with internal SuperDrive. Does it only recognize ATAPI bus. Does Pioneer sell internal (IDE/ATAPI) model? That should be the same thing Apple buys OEM.

As for iDVD working in other systems, it need Velocity Engine (AltiVec) and will NEVER work with iMacs (until they're G4 - MacWorld Tokyo?). New G4s (667 and 733) have 4 Altivec units, compared to 2 in old G4s, so iDVD should really scream in these.

[olli_g]

I have a LaCie FireWire-CDRW-Writer here, 16x/10x, and my question is: can I buy an IDE Superdrive, and open my FireWire burner, take out the CDRW drive and put the Superdrive in?

Is this possible?

Greets
olli_g

[peertimo]

Check out OWC - Other World Computing. They are selling the original SuperDrives ripped out of new G4's, and claim it works on any G4 with AGP? I have not tried it, bu it is cheaper than the $990, they are asking $599.

iDVD2 only works on a G4 with an _internal_ DVD-R.

So if you buy one... you need to install it internally for it to work with iDVD2.

arn