This is such a sweet little machine. I burned my first DVD today — a selection of the movies I’ve been making of Sophie over the last year and a half. The process was a breeze, finished in about and hour and a half, and popped the disc right out. I immediately tested it on the laptop itself, where the DVD opened and worked right away.
Then, I put the disc in my TV DVD player. It’s an older Toshiba drive, apparently made in the days before DVD-R and the likes and no, in fact, the thing failed. That’s frustrating. Here I have these projects that I’m queuing up and targeting output on DVD and I can’t even watch the results on my own set. This is where a standards-based industry direction, whether in software OR hardware manufacturing, really would come in handy. Would the Sony’s of the world PLEASE quit dicking around with your own crap and make something that everyone can use? [ed. I know, oversimplification. I’m ranting and I’m pissed]
As it turns out, my Playstation 2 of all things plays the DVD from my Superdrive just fine. So, now I’m only pissed in principle. But I’m still pissed.