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Burn iDVD Video projects onto DVD+R/RW
Authored by: Clean Sanchez on Apr 09, '04 05:25:07AM

Thanks for the excellent tip. I had wondered how or if it was possible to burn DVD+R as I wasn't sure that the disk images writing protocol was exactly the same as DVD-R. I presume the "drivers" for a dual format drive can sense the media type - DV+R and not DVD-R and adjust the very low level commands to move writ arms and heads or whatever is inside a disk drive. All this without iDVD needing to know exactly what it is writing to. And obviously copying to an external DVD+R drive is also supported. I had assumed until now that given that Superdrives are DVD-R and Apple software specs etc always point to DVD-R then Apple were solely in the DVD-R camp and deliberately didn't support DVD+R.

As a person with an Apple based DVD burning business you can't believe the number of times people, although forewarned, have complained that their newly burnt DVD-R disc doesn't work in their ancient or DVD+R drive! Time is money and, given the above logical assumptions I had thought that experimenting and ferreting around in the OS or looking for work arounds would be futile.

Now I have a very quick off the shelf solution using the iDVD consumer software - can delegate this task to an older computer too! Thanks again!



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