ok somewhere in this forum i read that someone replaced the internal cd- drive of the rev.b imac with an dvd drive ( also internal i believe)
i searched the forum but was not able to find that post.
so if anyone can help me that would be great


thnkx

[gumby5647]

yeah, its possible.....to hook it up and use DVD disc's on it....such as RIVEN....

don't count on watching any movies though....

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wow, thats cool
do you have any detailed information about that? where can i get taht?

[Kenneth]

Hi,

There you go! http://<a href="http://www.linkclub....acDVD.html</a>. BTW, why don't you just plug in a standard DVD player to the iMac and watch video. You will get DTS sound as well.

Kenneth

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[posthumanus]

Kenneth:

that link you gave - all i got were a few pics and thousands of ???'s.

is it me?

Well some nice pics but only ????? as text.
what am i doing wrong here?
And who builds the dvd drive that fits in the imac?

thank you again

[Kenneth]

Well some nice pics but only ????? as text.
what am i doing wrong here?
And who builds the dvd drive that fits in the imac?

This page is written in Japanese and it talks about how to mod. some certain models of Mac from 128k to Yosemite.
Well about the iMac DVD;
1) the author used a ATAPI DVD-ROM, which was put from a PowerBook.
2) He then opened up the iMac and put the internal stock CD-ROM out.
3) He noticed that both the DVD-ROM (from the PowerBook) and the CD-ROM
(from the iMac) are very similar.
4) He then made some changes on the DVD-ROM since the bondi blue eject
buttom is kind of different.
5) Put the DVD-ROM back in the iMac and the Mac OS recognized it. Playing
audio CD and data CD
6) Showing the info panel in the Apple System Profiler. (Internal ATA 1)
The author added that DVD-video is MPEG2 format and the DVD-Player2.0f
mod. version doesn't allow the iMac to play DVD-video since the software
needs at least a Rage128 chip.

That's what the author wrote in the iMac DVD page.

Enjoy!

Kenneth

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Performa 6116CD (60MHz, 72MB RAM, 700MB, A/V)
iMac Rev.A (233MHz, 256MB RAM, 50GB HD,TV/SCSI)
iBook Rev.A (300MHz, 288MB RAM, 3.2GB HD, 12.1)
PowerBookG4 (400MHz, 384MB RAM, 10GB HD, 15.2, Titanium)
Coming Up NeXT: 1GHz G4'Ver (SoLo Video System)
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