Even if there is such a thing as a PCMCIA video decoder card, I can't imagine there would be Mac drivers for it.
A better (cheap) solution, if you have a desktop machine with the capacity, is to convert your DVDs to QuickTime movies, which you could then copy to your PowerBook G3. By the time you buy a DVD burner, a FireWire enclosure for the drive, a FireWire PCMCIA card, and (perhaps) Toast, you're halfway to a used iBook G3 with a combo drive...
Greg
On Apr 17, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Apr 17, 2005, at 12:49 PM, John.E.Abraham wrote:
As a DVD in a Wallstreet is very rare, I am thinking of obtaining a DVD RW in an external USB case to use with my Wallstreet 233 MHz PDQ.
I know that to watch DVD's I need a PCMCIA Video decoder card, but if I want to use it as a Back up devices do I still need the decoder card.
Also I have heard that the PIONEER range of DVD RW are compatible with Mac OS X, is this true.
As I am running OS 10.1.5 what drive should I best select. DVR 109 is a good option for the future if I want to use it with future Mac models, but I may not be compatible with the Wallstreet.
Do not go with USB, get a Firewire card and drive instead. Pioneer DVDRW's are the 'Superdrive' models used by Apple, and so are supported, but many other drives are supported as well. However, 10.1.5 is very old and has more limited support for devices and third party hacks to get them working.
I'd upgrade to 10.2 at the very least.
As for playing DVD's from external drives I've heard it's doable, but in my own experience it didn't work. (Apple DVD drive transplanted into a Sony external FW case....it's an old, early generation firewire case, so that may be the problem)
-- Bruce Johnson
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