[icancyou]

Today was the day my son had been looking forward to some
time now. The release of StarWars Episode one, The Phantom Menace on DVD. His favourite film, one i had to see 4 times at the cimema. He had already been brought the VHS copy but the DVD was what he has been waiting for. 'Scene access' are magical words to my son ears. For he is a 'Podracer' ( he already owns the MAC -Episode one racer CD-Rom game) you see and the only part of this epic space opera he is interested in is the 'race'. So i paid over the £20 for the twin DVD set and get it home , put it in my 'iMac DVD+' and the Apple DVD software(version 2.7) crashes after 3 minutes, Scene access(chapters) does not work either. In small print at the bottom of the DVD case is the words" Some features will not work on a mac" some features ? the whole movie will not play !
and scene access is available on all the DVDs i have purchased before -

I am deeply dissapointed that a DVD from '20th century Fox' would not be released as a 'universal' type. My son is in tears as i write this to you. After paying for the Cinema, a CD-Rom game, a VHS copy of the film- surely Apple users are entitled as much as any PC user to the best quality version of the film.

[jcarr]

The Star Wars Episode I DVD should play just fine in the DVD-ROM drive in your Macintosh, as will the bonus material on Disc 2. The buzz around these forums is that the DVD-ROM portions of the disc only work on Windoze PCs.

The DVD-ROM stuff is typically some Flash-type application with little or no added material and a link to a web page that is intended for purchasers of the DVD.

I have not yet rec'd my copy of Episode I, but I would be willing to bet that some of the DVD-ROM content will function on my Mac. I have several other Windoze-only DVDs and I can still view the HTML content, as well as any MPEGs, WAVs and the like.

I hope this will cheer your son up a bit.

[mavgo]

I saw your post on MacNN.

I too have the DVD uk edition and am trying to play on a Mac Powerbook and have posted elsewhere on MacNN my problems

Disc 1 - hands on the Copywrite warnings, I have to press stop then play to get to the menu- so far the movie is playing ok.

Disc 2 hangs on the Australian copywrite warning, thinking it is the DVD menu! I can access the first feature ' The beginning' by pressing stop then play- that all.

I have contacted Fox in London and they say they are 'looking into the problems'.


All regular DVD feature should work on the MAc, it is just the weblinked features that won't work.


As to your problem- have you tried all the usual trouble shooting things.
Zapping P-Ram,
Throwing out the DVD preferences
Turning off extensions that are not needed for DVD.

Let me know if you get any luck

Regards


TJM

[n1ce]

I bought the dvd on monday, and it runs flawlessly (apart from the dvd-rom features) on my ibook 500 w/ OS X.1. I realise not everyone has this upgrade, but I also tried it (briefly) in 9.1 and it seemed ok, but I only played around for a couple of minutes before booting back into X.

[Demonhood]

If you're registered with starwars.com , there is a rather lengthy discussion of this topic here:
http://forums.starwars.com/thread.js...20&thread=2243

I've said it before and I'll say it again George Lucas is a burn out.
He dosen't have talent anymore so he has to build people up with
time, hype, and Legos for the wait.

StarWars is dead.
Long live HypeWars!

[MikeM32]

I've said it before and I'll say it again George Lucas is a burn out.
He dosen't have talent anymore so he has to build people up with
time, hype, and Legos for the wait.

StarWars is dead.
Long live HypeWars!

Yet another unregisterred moron.

Your opinion is duly noted and filed in the "we couldn't give a sh_t" category

Have a "super" day

Mike

[RyanG3]

Email the company that creates the DVD ROM content and ask nicely for Mac support.

The company is InterActual (PCFriendly) at: http://www.interactual.com

email is:
support@interactual.com

I've been emailing this company kindly asking for them to support Macs for two years now. I usually recieve the same lame answers that are basicly this:
We use software that only works with Windows but we are looking into Mac support.

TWO years!

What really sucks is this is the only company that the movie studios use to create content for the DVD ROM sections of their DVDs.
But wait it gets worse, now with the new Star Wars E1 DVD, they block Mac users from the exclusive web content at dvd.starwars.com,
I thought the web was supposed to be platform independant.

So only windows users can access dvd.starwars.com

Microsoft will own the internet if this keeps up!!

This is just wrong, please email InterActual and Lucas Film and let them know Mac support is important, but please be kind with your words.

Thank you.