I recently purchased a Powerbook 17 1.5ghz, and was wondering what media
works with the optical drive. I do most of my burning from Toast 6, though
will be using iDVD (probably) to produce my DVDs.

I would, however, but interested to know if any other formats (other than
DVD-R) are supported by the drive.

Also, anyone know what kind of media works well in this drive?

Burning CD-R coasters is painful enough - I'd imagine DVDs are much more
expensive and time consuming.

Thanks in advance,

-- Verne

In article <0001HW.BD613706000DC2C4F03055B0@news.usenetserver .com>,
Verne Arase <VerneA@pobox.com> wrote:

> I recently purchased a Powerbook 17 1.5ghz, and was wondering what media
> works with the optical drive. I do most of my burning from Toast 6, though
> will be using iDVD (probably) to produce my DVDs.
>
> I would, however, but interested to know if any other formats (other than
> DVD-R) are supported by the drive.
>
> Also, anyone know what kind of media works well in this drive?
>
> Burning CD-R coasters is painful enough - I'd imagine DVDs are much more
> expensive and time consuming.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -- Verne

DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW... don't try using DVD+R or +RW discs.

I'm starting to see DVD-R discs in bulk packs of 50 for around $25
CDN... which makes them pretty affordable.

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Alan Zisman <alan@nospam.zisman.ca> wrote in message news:<alan-0E1018.21265205092004@shawnews.vw.shawcable.net>.. .
> In article <0001HW.BD613706000DC2C4F03055B0@news.usenetserver .com>,
> Verne Arase <VerneA@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > I recently purchased a Powerbook 17 1.5ghz, and was wondering what media
> > works with the optical drive. I do most of my burning from Toast 6, though
> > will be using iDVD (probably) to produce my DVDs.
> >
> > I would, however, but interested to know if any other formats (other than
> > DVD-R) are supported by the drive.
> >
> > Also, anyone know what kind of media works well in this drive?
> >
> > Burning CD-R coasters is painful enough - I'd imagine DVDs are much more
> > expensive and time consuming.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > -- Verne
>
> DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW... don't try using DVD+R or +RW discs.
>
> I'm starting to see DVD-R discs in bulk packs of 50 for around $25
> CDN... which makes them pretty affordable.
>

My PB 1.5GHz 15" seems happy enough with DVD+RW disks. All depends on
the drive. The Matsu****as in the new PBs are dual format, and should
support both types of DVDs in Toast at least.

In article <b320bd05.0409060344.66f5e08b@posting.google.com >,
crussia_hip********.com (splonk) wrote:

> Alan Zisman <alan@nospam.zisman.ca> wrote in message
> news:<alan-0E1018.21265205092004@shawnews.vw.shawcable.net>.. .
> > In article <0001HW.BD613706000DC2C4F03055B0@news.usenetserver .com>,
> > Verne Arase <VerneA@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I recently purchased a Powerbook 17 1.5ghz, and was wondering what media
> > > works with the optical drive. I do most of my burning from Toast 6,
> > > though
> > > will be using iDVD (probably) to produce my DVDs.
> > >
> > > I would, however, but interested to know if any other formats (other than
> > > DVD-R) are supported by the drive.
> > >
> > > Also, anyone know what kind of media works well in this drive?
> > >
> > > Burning CD-R coasters is painful enough - I'd imagine DVDs are much more
> > > expensive and time consuming.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > -- Verne
> >
> > DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW... don't try using DVD+R or +RW discs.
> >
> > I'm starting to see DVD-R discs in bulk packs of 50 for around $25
> > CDN... which makes them pretty affordable.
> >
>
> My PB 1.5GHz 15" seems happy enough with DVD+RW disks. All depends on
> the drive. The Matsu****as in the new PBs are dual format, and should
> support both types of DVDs in Toast at least.

Thanks for the clarification... I wasn't aware that Apple had finally
moved away from the -R only Pioneer product line.

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On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 23:26:52 -0500, Alan Zisman wrote
(in article <alan-0E1018.21265205092004@shawnews.vw.shawcable.net>):

> DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW... don't try using DVD+R or +RW discs.
>
> I'm starting to see DVD-R discs in bulk packs of 50 for around $25
> CDN... which makes them pretty affordable.

Yeah, well ... surprise.

I was just at Sam's Club and saw 'em for about $23 US/Package of 50.

Neat.

-- Verne

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 06:44:48 -0500, splonk wrote
(in article <b320bd05.0409060344.66f5e08b@posting.google.com>) :

> My PB 1.5GHz 15" seems happy enough with DVD+RW disks. All depends on
> the drive. The Matsu****as in the new PBs are dual format, and should
> support both types of DVDs in Toast at least.

Does the OS allow you to read +R/+RW media?

According to the Panasonic site, it seems that the UJ-825-B (Apple reports
the drive as a UJ-825 and even the pdf describing the drive is named
UJ-825.pdf) indicates the DVD MULTI Drive allows the following to be written:
2x DVD-RAM, 4x DVD-R, 16x CD-R, 8x CD-RW, 2.4x +R, and 2.4x +RW.

Reading appears to be 24x CD-ROM and 8x DVD-ROM.

Next question is: How many of the above will MacOS X allow you to do?

-- Verne

P.S. Boy, sure feels a lot different that the el-cheapo slide out DVD-ROM on
the Pismo :-).