Re: Replacement for Quicksilver G4 Superdrive
On 20/04/2015 11:39, William Tomcanin wt8091...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone manually cleaned the laser lens on their DVD drive? I'm tempted at this point to remove the drive, take it apart and attempt to clean it manually until a replacement arrives. I understand that the lenses on the original Pioneer 103 DVR drives must be immaculate in order for them to work properly. Bill Hi, Yes I've done that with many of the optical drives I've had over the years - alcohol on a cotton bud will usually do the trick for just cleaning the lens. An associated problem with age is focus drift errors on the lens - I had this problem with an Xbox dvd player - fortunately there are screw adjustments available for the laser lens focus and a fiddle with these fixed my problem. I would recommend googling for some kind of tutorial first though as you need to be able to reverse your chosen adjustment back to it's original position if it's the wrong one and before you attempt another. Pete -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Replacement for Quicksilver G4 Superdrive
Has anyone manually cleaned the laser lens on their DVD drive? I'm tempted at this point to remove the drive, take it apart and attempt to clean it manually until a replacement arrives. I understand that the lenses on the original Pioneer 103 DVR drives must be immaculate in order for them to work properly. Bill On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:13 PM, void v...@comsouth.net wrote: Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® 5 ACTIVE™, an ATT 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: t...@prismnet.com Date:04/13/2015 11:59 AM (GMT-05:00) To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Replacement for Quicksilver G4 Superdrive On Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 10:55:31 AM UTC-5, Bill wrote: Hello all, As the subject line implies, the Superdrive in my trusty Quicksilver will no longer read DVDs. CDs appear to read ok, although burning is becoming problematic (50-50 chance of success). Can anyone suggest a replacement? The difficulty is that PATA drives are no longer manufactured and the old stock of half-height (normal optical drive sized) PATA optical drives ran out a long time ago. SATA optical drives are still available. Newegg regularly has them for less than $20, so, if there is room, you might install a SATA optical drive with a PATA to SATA adapter (some of the adapters will work in both directions). Another alternative is to get this slim PATA optical drive: http://amzn.com/B001B7XYZO This or similar slimline PATA to normal PATA adapter: http://r.ebay.com/Yy4C5d And you may need this slim-line optical drive to full-size optical drive physical adapter: http://amzn.com/B007C1KPQY The drive is slot-load, so it may not work well if you G4 has doors that need to be pushed open by a tray. Jeff Walther I use an external firewire DVD drive with my Macs. It solved every problem I ever had burning discs on Apple hardware. USB is cheaper but sucks on PPC macs. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Text display on TV problem
Pete Thanks for the info, I'll try that this evening. And you are right about using dvd rather than cd, that may be enough to resolve the problem along with using high ppi. Ged On 20 Apr 2015, at 11:34, Peter Devlin wrote: On 20/04/2015 10:56, geraldcornish geraldcorn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I need to create a version of a booklet for display on flat screen tv (not HD) and having trouble making text visible - it displays as broken lumps mostly undecipherable. I am exporting spreads from InDesign to VIDEO_TS folder as jpegs and burning this to cd. Is there another way I can get clear text on the tv screen? This is a PAL system, could it be a tv screen resolution problem? If so, can I get around it? TIA Ged Hi, It's some years ago since I used such software but as I remember InDesign is vector (postscript) and the jpeg format is for rasterised images - if you have Pshop you could export the spreads from InDesign as pdf and then raster them into Pshop to vary the resolution and then save them as high quality jpegs and try that. The resolution needs to be high- ish to get typefaces to appear clearly - possibly between 180 and 360ppi to get somewhere near the legibility of a pdf. Not sure what the tv screen will make of it as this is down to the dot pitch resolution of the tv but many modern screens/dvd players have the ability to convert from mpeg and jpeg on the fly now and can adapt to various resolutions and frame rates instantly. Not sure it can be a cd though - shouldn't it be dvd for video_ts? Pete -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Text display on TV problem
On 20/04/2015 10:56, geraldcornish geraldcorn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I need to create a version of a booklet for display on flat screen tv (not HD) and having trouble making text visible - it displays as broken lumps mostly undecipherable. I am exporting spreads from InDesign to VIDEO_TS folder as jpegs and burning this to cd. Is there another way I can get clear text on the tv screen? This is a PAL system, could it be a tv screen resolution problem? If so, can I get around it? TIA Ged Hi, It's some years ago since I used such software but as I remember InDesign is vector (postscript) and the jpeg format is for rasterised images - if you have Pshop you could export the spreads from InDesign as pdf and then raster them into Pshop to vary the resolution and then save them as high quality jpegs and try that. The resolution needs to be high-ish to get typefaces to appear clearly - possibly between 180 and 360ppi to get somewhere near the legibility of a pdf. Not sure what the tv screen will make of it as this is down to the dot pitch resolution of the tv but many modern screens/dvd players have the ability to convert from mpeg and jpeg on the fly now and can adapt to various resolutions and frame rates instantly. Not sure it can be a cd though - shouldn't it be dvd for video_ts? Pete -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Text display on TV problem
Hi all I need to create a version of a booklet for display on flat screen tv (not HD) and having trouble making text visible - it displays as broken lumps mostly undecipherable. I am exporting spreads from InDesign to VIDEO_TS folder as jpegs and burning this to cd. Is there another way I can get clear text on the tv screen? This is a PAL system, could it be a tv screen resolution problem? If so, can I get around it? TIA Ged -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Replacement for Quicksilver G4 Superdrive
Thanks, Pete. I'll look into the adjustment as well. Hopefully I'll be able to attempt the cleaning within the next day or two as time permits. Thanks for the prompt response! Regards, Bill On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Peter Devlin pdim...@mail.com wrote: On 20/04/2015 11:39, William Tomcanin wt8091...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone manually cleaned the laser lens on their DVD drive? I'm tempted at this point to remove the drive, take it apart and attempt to clean it manually until a replacement arrives. I understand that the lenses on the original Pioneer 103 DVR drives must be immaculate in order for them to work properly. Bill Hi, Yes I've done that with many of the optical drives I've had over the years - alcohol on a cotton bud will usually do the trick for just cleaning the lens. An associated problem with age is focus drift errors on the lens - I had this problem with an Xbox dvd player - fortunately there are screw adjustments available for the laser lens focus and a fiddle with these fixed my problem. I would recommend googling for some kind of tutorial first though as you need to be able to reverse your chosen adjustment back to it's original position if it's the wrong one and before you attempt another. Pete -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Replacement for Quicksilver G4 Superdrive
I understand that the lenses on the original Pioneer 103 DVR drives must be immaculate in order for them to work properly. By the time of the Pioneer 113, the drives had gotten quite good. But, they were still priced at about $100, whereas the price of SATA burners had depressed to nearly $15. Time waits for no man (nor for any product, either), and the time for PATA burners was, alas, OVER! -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
