External DVD Burner help

[groovetuber]

I am looking into getting an external DVD burner for my macbook, what do you guys recommend? Thanks.

 

[NanoBite]

G'day groovetuber,

Here's what I've found about buying an ext dvd burner:

mac external dvd burner, DVD Recorder CD & DVD Drives


In my search I also found various snippets from forums about external DVD burner experiences:

This afternoon i got an external dvd burner which is connected to my emac via a usb cable. I am not sure if it works right out of the box, because right away I installed software which I found on the LaCie homepage. I was able to use this sofware because i found out that LaCie is using Nec dvd burners to build its products. In your case that's probably not an option.
But i had problems using the apple application iDvd.
After some research on the net i found the following webpage.
http://www.patchburn.de/
On this webpage you can download a patch program that adds support for dvd burners.
It allows many, otherwise unsupported burners to be used directly with Mac-OS X, iTunes and DiscBurne. Hopefully this might work for you too.
In my case, even Idvd seems to work fine.

Apple doesn't support a lot of DVD burners. Even if you do get them to work in the Finder and have them recognized by your system, it's a different story to get them to work with Apple programs. There have been many threads about it. Before you buy a dvd burner, always check with Apples support pages!

I also believe that utitlising your Macs FireWire connection may be the better avenue for peripherals ...