![]() Once it hits 50%, it will become the most common format in US.Īt least 8 million of these HD households today surely have Macs at home, as well as HD camcorders. While DVD was an addition to VCR, Blu-ray is supplanting DVD. At present, Blu-ray is nearing 25% of the US market, which puts it in some 25 million US households. Today, Blu-ray has been the only HD optical media standard for almost two years, and its market penetration is higher than where DVD was at the same time in its life. It didn’t take long for blank DVDs to drop below $1, and for DVD players to drop below $200 (and then below $100, and then below $50). To put this in perspective, when iDVD first came out (early 2001), less than 15% of US households had a DVD player, very few computers had a DVD burner (and an internal IDE model cost $400), and blank DVDs were at least $8 each. Nine out of ten consumer camcorders on the market today are HD. ![]() By the end of this holiday season, majority will have a Blu-ray player. More than half of US households have a HDTV set. There is no valid reason why this shouldn’t be a part of iDVD’s feature set. And don't forget to apply the iDVD 2.…”Toast 10 Pro does a good job burning 30 minute HD BR home movies onto cheap DVD-R disks.”Īnd that should be iDVD’s job. The single folder contains everything you need (and then some!).Įject the "Macintosh HD" image. no need to get any other files off the System Restore CDs. And 1.16 gigabytes later, your iDVD 2 is installed. Open the Applications folder in that image and find the iDVD 2 folder and copy it to your Applications folder. An image of the original "Macintosh HD" will appear on the desktop. You can tell Disk Copy to skip the checksum verification. dmg files gathered up like this, double-click on the first one ("PowerMac HD Disc 1.dmg"). dmg files you find into a single folder on your hard drive. Go through all your System Restore CDs and into the "Configurations" folder on each CD. Provided you've got a big chunk of disk space temporarily available, it's pretty easy to get iDVD 2 installed from your original System Restore CDs once you've done a clean install of MacOS 10.2. Unfortunately, this doens't help KDogg, but for people who have their software restore CDs, it provides a nice alternative to using them to install 10.1 + Jaguar. I found this on Macintouch today and thought the detailed instructions made this thread worth resurrecting. I don't know, myself, how else to get iDVD. I would try to contact Apple that's the first and most legit way to get a copy of iDVD.Īs per wiping your system, that shouldn't be a big deal if you can back up your user directory (and possibly your /Applications directory) first. The software restore discs didn't come with the Mac? That's your problem, for one thing. I want to do some quick 'n dirty DVDs with iDVD, and I can't for the life of me get a copy. It should be free because I have a mac with a superdrive, no? This is driving me crazy. (That will also wipe your system drive with the restored version, btw.) So, I'm not sure what to do. I searched the knowedge base and the only way to install iDVD it says is to use your software restore discs, which I do not have. Addresses an issue that could cause iDVD to use all available CPU capacity when searching for missing files. Fixes a problem that could prevent files from re-linking. Improves reliability of imported iPhoto '11 slideshows. There is no iDVD installer I could buy, and the upgrade versions are just that - upgrades, so I can't just buy the version 2 updater and install from scratch. Version 7.1.2: Note: This product is not compatible with macOS Catalina. I can download iPhoto, but I cannot get iDVD. I bought this used Dual 800 Mhz machine from Rithm, and he included with it a CD of OSX 10.1.3.
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