eMac CD-RW not reading DVD's

Alright, this might seem like a lame question, but how come my eMac won't read DVDs? My old TiBook could read them fine, no problem... and it only had a CD drive. This there something I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Yes, you only have a CD-RW drive, some of the emacs shipped with this.
You have to have a combo drive for it to work.
Regards

I could be wrong but, I think the eMacs came with either a Combo or Superdrive option.

Yours sounds like a combo drive.
Have you opened the DVD Player in Applications on your Hard Drive and chosen the region setting?
Or tried to play the DVD from there?
Also if you have a disc icon on your desktop once the DVD is inserted you could double click the icon then highlight the "Video TS" folder then press the "Apple" & "I" keys to get the info box up and then choose DVD player to open the "Video TS" folder that is on the disc.

Hope this helps
Paul

Over its production the eMac has been available with CD-ROM, Combo and Superdrives. Go to the computer info item in the Apple menu and use that to find out what model eMac and drive you have.

Here's what is listed in my System Profiler

HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B:

Manufacturer: HL-DT-ST
Model: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B
Revision: 1.05
Serial Number:
Drive Type: CD-RW
Disc Burning: Apple Supported/Shipped
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal

You have a CDRW drive, not a CDRW/DVD Combo drive.

http://www.pcplus.co.uk/reviews/def...leid=5632&subsectionid=372&subsubsectionid=33

A plain CD-ROM drive will also not read DVDs, so your TiBook also had a CD-ROM/DVD drive, not a plain CD-ROM drive.

Vicky

Drive Type: CD-RW

I believe this means you have a combo drive.
See my previous post for some suggestions on what to do.

Hope this helps
Paul

pphking said:

Drive Type: CD-RW

I believe this means you have a combo drive.
See my previous post for some suggestions on what to do.

Hope this helps
Paul

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I did check my applications and no DVD program coud be found. I've heard from more than one person that the drive I indeed have is not a Combo, but a standard CD-RW drive.

The first eMacs - 700 mhz - had the choice of CD-ROM, CD-RW or Combo drive (CD-RW/DVD ROM). This was the only eMac that offered a CD-RW. Later models dropped the CD-RW and added the SuperDrive (CD-RW/DVD-RW). It looks like you've got a 700 mhz model with a CD-RW. Without a SuperDrive or Combo you won't be able to use DVDs. According to Low End Mac, all TiBooks models, even the earliest, had at least DVD-ROM drives with later models having SuperDrives.

As Lil and others have stated, that is a Plain CD/RW drive. It will read CD's, and Write CD-r's and CD-R/W's. It will not play DVD's.

pphking said:

Drive Type: CD-RW

I believe this means you have a combo drive.
See my previous post for some suggestions on what to do.

Hope this helps
Paul

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CD-RW means it reads and burns only CDs. A combo drive would be CD-RW/DVD-ROM.
As others already stated, not all eMacs came with a Combo or Superdrive. The educational models even were CD-ROM only (can't burn anything).

They're right, but I think it's weird that there are no DVD apps on your HD. I've got them on 9.2 on my iMac 333, even though it's just CD

Edit: Or you have the origional pre-installed system.

I think OS X only installs DVD Player if you have a DVD-drive built-in.

If you need to use DVD's with your emac you could easily just get an external firewire DVD drive.
You could even consider picking up a drive that can also burn DVD's. (i.e. one that is a DVD-ROM & a DVD+R or DVD-R).