
Once it hits 50%, it will become the most common format in US.Īt least 8 million of these HD households today surely have Macs at home, as well as HD camcorders. While DVD was an addition to VCR, Blu-ray is supplanting DVD. At present, Blu-ray is nearing 25% of the US market, which puts it in some 25 million US households. Today, Blu-ray has been the only HD optical media standard for almost two years, and its market penetration is higher than where DVD was at the same time in its life. It didn’t take long for blank DVDs to drop below $1, and for DVD players to drop below $200 (and then below $100, and then below $50). I created DVDs for some of my customers, mostly artists. I have been working in iDVD 2 for sometime now. The use of third party optical drives for burning is acceptable with this program. This Apple product is also compatible for Windows DVD Maker. It allows a user to burn digital images, audios in MP3 and movies using QuickTime to DVDs which can be played on any DVD player. It also requires a minimum of 256MB of RAM installed, with 384MB recommended. Apple iDVD Apple iDVD is a DVD creator software for OS X computers.
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The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them. System Requirements, iDVD 3 requires a Power Mac G4 with an Apple SuperDrive, running Mac OS X version 10.2 or later. This Mac application is a product of Apple Inc. The application lies within Audio & Video Tools, more precisely General. The current setup file available for download requires 36.1 MB of hard disk space. Our built-in antivirus checked this Mac download and rated it as virus free.
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To put this in perspective, when iDVD first came out (early 2001), less than 15% of US households had a DVD player, very few computers had a DVD burner (and an internal IDE model cost $400), and blank DVDs were at least $8 each. If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. Download Apple iDVD 7.1 for Mac from our software library for free. Nine out of ten consumer camcorders on the market today are HD.

By the end of this holiday season, majority will have a Blu-ray player. More than half of US households have a HDTV set.

There is no valid reason why this shouldn’t be a part of iDVD’s feature set. …”Toast 10 Pro does a good job burning 30 minute HD BR home movies onto cheap DVD-R disks.”Īnd that should be iDVD’s job.
