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sek929 · May 16, 2005, 11:07 AM

The time has come to sh*tcan the CDRW that came inside my G4 (quicksilver 733). Due to my roomates recent ability to "backup" DVDs and wanting to watch DVDs in my bedroom I need a DVD+R / DVD ROM / CDRW / etc. all in one drive.

I've done a little searching on pricewatch and what have you but I would really like to hear from any of you who have a 733 Quicksilver and have added an aftermarket DVD drive. Even if you just have a DVD ROM drive I'd like to know how it handles DVD playback and such.

Specs and research are all well and good but I prefer to hear it right from a Mac user who has my machine and bought an aftermarket DVD drive... I really don't have the time (or patience) to not have this thing work properly and I'll be damned to buy one from Best Buy (overpriced!), so I'll rely on you, loyal NNer, to guide me in wasting my money on yet another gagdet to fullfill my life for a few minutes.

For reference my machine has 1 gig of RAM and is currently running OS 10.2.6

powertrippin · May 16, 2005, 11:11 AM

get a pioneer 106 or 107. Same thing as OEM.

CIA · May 16, 2005, 11:20 AM

Pioneer DVR-109, native support in 10.4, quick and easy patchburn install for 10.3. Solid drive.

sek929 · May 16, 2005, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by CIA

Pioneer DVR-109, native support in 10.4, quick and easy patchburn install for 10.3. Solid drive.

Looking at the 109 now at New egg.

I have Jaguar though, with no upgrading to Tiger in sight. I really don't want any BS involved in this....anyone got a 109 working on pre-Panther and Tiger systems?

powertrippin · May 16, 2005, 12:38 PM

http://forums.macnn.com/65/mac-desktops/253644/pioneer-dvr-109-new-superdrive/

CIA · May 16, 2005, 01:32 PM

Yes. I was running my 109 pre-tiger. Just download and install patchburn, painless and the drive acts like a OEM installed drive afterward. No need to change anything if you ever move into tiger world. What OS are you on? 10.1? Gulp.... OS 9?

sek929 · May 17, 2005, 06:36 AM

Originally Posted by CIA

Yes. I was running my 109 pre-tiger. Just download and install patchburn, painless and the drive acts like a OEM installed drive afterward. No need to change anything if you ever move into tiger world. What OS are you on? 10.1? Gulp.... OS 9?

OS9? What do you take me for, a caveman? hehe

I currently run 10.2.6

I am also going to order the 109 today, I'll let you know how it works.

winterlandia · May 17, 2005, 09:01 PM

I got a 109 for my quicksilver 733 and it worked great with patchburn before tiger and perfectly now that I'm in tiger too. The disks are pretty hot when they come out but I have yet to make any coasters and I've burned quite a few already (just dvd-r and dvd-rws so far). I got mine at newegg which had a good price (it was on sale for around $60 the day I ordered mine if I remember right).

Kristoff · May 17, 2005, 09:26 PM

My brand new dual 2.0 came with a SONY DVD RW DW-Q28A 16x Dual layer +-RW

GORDYmac · May 18, 2005, 10:57 AM

I got the 109 and am using it with Tiger (Quicksilver 933). While some functions worked in Tiger, it seemed flaky (eject button didn't always work, Finder burning not working, unexplained hangs when ejecting from Toast). Patchburn has been updated for Tiger. After running it, I haven't had any problems with the drive.

sek929 · May 20, 2005, 12:01 PM

*bump*

Ok Just installed it yesterday. Works great! Burns Audio CDs in 1:20, now that is impressive. Toast likes it, iTunes likes it and even discburn does. Hooray for Jaguar!

Although I have a serious nagging problem...

Since my G4 didn't come with a DVD drive the Apple DVD player was never included in the software package now making it almost impossible to watch DVDs on my computer. VLC seems to be able to handle the burned DVDs in our collection but not reliably.

I am very aware buying an OS would solve the problem, but I already spent my computer money on the burner. I have the Jaguar disks, but there seems to be no DVD player app in sight as far as I could tell at least.

If anyone has advice or, ahem, software for me that may not be kosher, just e-mail me at U_skennedy@umassd.edu or just post back here if you dare!

winterlandia · May 22, 2005, 10:23 PM

you might try installing the dvd player 4.6 from apple? http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...dplayer46.html It says for 10.4 but you never know it may work. I never got the dvd player to work until I upgraded to tiger (I tried to copy the dvdplayer.app from my powerbook as it had a dvd player in 10.3 and that didn't seem to work either-- there must be more stuff that gets installed elsewhere). I'd upgrade to tiger anyway if you can at some point, it really makes my old quicksilver feel a lot more responsive.