All this is assuming that the specific computer you had will read DVDs in the first place. Mine is a 2002 model, and does not. (That drive cost more, and the university wouldn't spring for it. Now it's standard.)
I use this 3 times a week in class, with PowerPoint slides, but somebody else had to set up the system. Plugging in the connector is about the limit of my technical skills!
I had the same problem taking a CD with a PowerPoint presentation burned onto it, to a school that only had Windows machines!
John
At 1:02 PM -0500 3/30/05, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Hi all,
Please reply off list. This just happens to be the only place I know that has Mac users.
This morning I was taking part in a panel with a presentation that included some clips from a DVD. I arrived to find a standard computer video projector with all the connectors and cables provided by the venue, my DVD of examples, and another person's fairly new Mac (Christmas present) laptop.
We couldn't get them to work together. The only common-looking connector was a USB cable, but plugging that in made no difference. The video projector didn't see any video, and the Mac didn't respond. Rebooting didn't work. Pressing the little "two screen" function key didn't work (whether pressing by itself or along with any of the control-style keys). And the Mac owner just shrugged like it was all supposed to work automatically.
With 100 people in the room, not a soul had any idea of how to make a Mac work with a video projector. A Google search during a break only turned up sites wanting to sell special cables or talking Mac language I don't understand.
So, here I am, following this total failure, asking what to do next time, short of making sure I have a PC with me. Anybody?
Dennis
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