Read DVD+RW disks in SuperDrives

Jan 16, '04 10:14:00AM

Contributed by: BigGeoff

Whilst opening Disk Utility on my new G5 I noticed that it's standard super drive (Pioneer DVR-106D) has listed under it's capabilities CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW. Unable to resist, I fed in a DVD+RW from my old Dell PC and Hey Presto it opened! I had a DVD image on it and although DVD Player launched it didn't seem to be able to read the disk.

However, I could browse the disk in Finder and copy files from it to my Hard Drive. Once I had copied the VIDEO_TS folder over from the DVD to my hard drive it played fine.

Just thought maybe some of the readers, like me, hadn't even thought to try DVD+ media in their Superdrive. Maybe if they do it'll work too!

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