FireWire DVD-R Drives. Way to add DVD-burning capabilities to your Mac. Macworld Lab rounded up seven of the newest external FireWire DVD burners: Cyclone's DVD Revo FireWire SuperDrive 4x. DVD burner and power it on, start Toast and scan for drives. It should show up. I've used an HP FireWire external, and now a NEC ND 6500-A dual-layer burner in a cheap USB 2 enclosure. Both work fine with my G4 iBook as DVD data burners. Haven't yet tried to copy a DVD or burn a video DVD. Any DVD Recorder should work fine. I happen to prefer Panasonic’s. I have their DMR-E100, E85 and E95. Mac os 10.3 emulator. All three have hard drives which is great for cutting out the junk at the start and end of the recording that you don’t want to appear on the DVD-R. You think you won’t want to do any editing now but I think you will change your mind once you get one. ![]() If you get one with a HDD to can still burn directly to the DVD-R if that is what you really want to do. That is not for me. I always want to cut something out. Another advantage to having a HDD is you can burn a full 2 hour DVD in 15 minutes if the recorder has a 4X burner like my old ones. I think the newer ones have 8X burners which means you can burn a full 2 hour DVD in 8 minutes. You can make as many copies as you want. Get one without a HDD and your only burning speed is 1X and you can’t make additional copies. The recorder is for my school. They are video taping sermons which they want to send to another part of the campus as a dvd, so those students out there can watch. Honestly, there won’t be any editing done in this case. If there were, we have a Mac G5 to do that on, and I’d be the one doing it, so there wouldn’t be any trouble with that. They just want to have someone to be able to hit record on the camera, or I guess in this case, they probably wouldn’t have to record, they’d just have a feed going into the recorder, and then just hit record on the dvd burner. If they need copies, I think the Mac can do that, but I guess that would be an option that would be beneficial. So from what you said, I think we should look at getting a recorder with a decent sized harddrive in it. Are these recorders like a set-top box? I’m trying to picture what you’re describing exactly, i’m stuck on the computer dvd recorer, and i know that’s not what we want. Here is a link to Panasonics current models. They all have composite and S-Video inputs. I know the E95 has a firewire input and I think the E500 also has a firewire input. But the composite and S-Video inputs work just fine so you probably don’t need a firewire input. These prices are retail so you shouldn’t have to pay any where near these prices. For example I bought my E95 from Buy.com for $350. But you have to be patient and look for sales to get the good prices. The EH50 is probably adequate for what you want to do but I doubt that it has a firewire input. I posted the link to Panasonic’s because that is what I have. I think Toshiba, Pioneer, and perhaps a few other companies have DVD recorders with hard drives but they are about the same price. The only time when the prices dip is when new models come out and the old models get closed out, sometimes at great prices. I would avoid the everyday cheap models like Ilo and other off brands.
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