Mar 16 2005
OWC offers internal ‘SuperDrive’ DVD and CD burners for the PowerMac G3, G4 and G5, eMac G4, iMac G4 and G5, Mac mini, G4 Cube and PowerBook G4. Internal drives start as low as $75 and feature up to 16X DVD (4.7 GB per disc) burn speeds, up to 6X DVD Dual Layer (8.5GB per disc) burn speeds and up to 40X CD burn speeds.
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Mar 10 2005
The Blue-ray Disc Association has accepted Apple to its board of directors. “Apple is pleased to join the Blu-ray Disc Association board as part of our efforts to drive consumer adoption of HD,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Consumers are already creating stunning HD content with Apple’s leading video editing applications like iMovie HD and are anxiously awaiting a way to burn their own high def DVDs.”
“Blu-ray Disc is a next-generation optical disc format being developed for High Definition video and high-capacity software applications. A single-layer Blu-ray Disc will hold up to 25 gigabytes of data and a double-layer Blu-ray Disc will hold up to 50 gigabytes of data.”
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Feb 16 2005
Velan Software announce earlier this week that version 3.5 of Fast DVD Copy for Mac OS X is available for download on the company’s website. Fast DVD Copy allows users to back up their DVD and audio CD collections, Playstation 2 games, DVD-ROMs and CD-ROMs. Version 3.5 offers a new “Movie Only” function that cuts out a DVD’s menus and special features leaving nothing but the movie itself, thus saving disc space and affording less lossy compression.
Among the new features introduced since version 3.0, Fast DVD Copy now offers:
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