Exclusive you said?

A reader drew our attention to a page of the MCE reseller MCE who sell among other things burners that are compatible with Powerbooks.
There you may read they have burners that are able to burn DL with iDVD 5.01. This would be a good thing if they didn't add it was one of their exclusive functions.
This is not exclusive at all!
There are two available solutions to enable DL burning with iDVD 5.01:
- Own a DL burner bought with a recent machine, or buy a burner supported by Apple. For laptops and the Mac mini, the Pionner K05 is totally acknowledged as delivered/supported by 10.4.3. In that case, no need of a patch of any sort.
- Use the iDVD modification we made:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2005-05-26/#4090
It will force iDVD to acknowledge and use a DL burner not supported by Apple.
If you buy an OEM burner for a laptop or a Mac mini just take care of on important thing.
The Mac mini requires a burner configured as "Slave", whereas recent Powerbooks and iBooks require a Master.
And there's no manual way to set it on such machines, as configuration is factory made in the firmware.