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iMac DVD player not playing certain DVDs?
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1023203"><p>Congrats, you have resurrected a six-year-old thread.</p><p></p><p>To answer your question: your spec report (thanks for providing that) make it clear that you have a "combo drive" not a "superdrive." Combo drives read DVDs but can't write to them. The key line in the report is "write strategies" IOW "what I can write to."</p><p></p><p>You could buy an external DVD burner, certainly, and with the aid of <a href="http://www.patchburn.de/download.html" target="_blank">Patchburn</a> it will work with pretty much any brand. I would personally suggest you purchase a "bare" DVD burner and then a firewire case and put the two together -- you will get MUCH better performance and speed from a FW connection than a USB2 connection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1023203"] Congrats, you have resurrected a six-year-old thread. To answer your question: your spec report (thanks for providing that) make it clear that you have a "combo drive" not a "superdrive." Combo drives read DVDs but can't write to them. The key line in the report is "write strategies" IOW "what I can write to." You could buy an external DVD burner, certainly, and with the aid of [URL="http://www.patchburn.de/download.html"]Patchburn[/URL] it will work with pretty much any brand. I would personally suggest you purchase a "bare" DVD burner and then a firewire case and put the two together -- you will get MUCH better performance and speed from a FW connection than a USB2 connection. [/QUOTE]
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