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eMac and iDVD 3 SuperDrive ? the ultimate burning machine.

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The eMac with SuperDrive is Apple’s most affordable, start-to-finish, DVD authoring and recording system that lets you easily burn your own DVDs that can be played on almost any consumer DVD player.

DVDs An industry-standard drive that reads dozens of standard CD and DVD formats, the eMac’s SuperDrive now writes DVD-R discs at 4x speed, reads DVDs at 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at 16x speed, writes CD-RW discs at 8x speed and reads CDs at 32x speed. It’s hands down the easiest way to author CDs and DVDs that are compatible with most professional or consumer DVD players, and that you can share with PC users. The SuperDrive supports DVD-Video, DVD-ROM and DVD-R, as well as CD-ROM, CD-Audio, CD-R, CD-RW, CDI, CD Bridge, CD Extended, CD Mixed Mode and Photo CD media.

iDVD 2 Out-of-the-box DVD authoring
iDVD 3 gives you a simple one-window interface for assembling a DVD that holds up to 90 minutes of movies and thousands of digital images. iDVD 3 accepts QuickTime files (video, audio and stills) as input, and makes any number of clips, menus, slideshows and buttons for navigation purposes. You can create menus with up to six navigation buttons over full-motion backgrounds. iDVD 3 comes with an array of professionally designed themes and also enables you to create your own themes. The MPEG-2 encoder in iDVD 3 and the Mac OS X architecture combine to provide real-time encoding and accelerated DVD recording.

Data archiving on CD and DVD
The SuperDrive is also ideal for doing regular backups. CDs can hold up to 700MB of data, more than 480 times as much as a floppy disk. DVDs can store 4.7GB of data, the equivalent of about 7 CDs, 18 Zip 250 disks, or 3200 floppy disks. With this kind of capacity, you can easily back up your entire digital photo collection or thousands of music files — and keep them safe for years.

4X DVD-R Writes Burn DVDs twice as fast
Your SuperDrive equipped eMac lets you read and burn both CDs and DVDs that can be played in most consumer DVD players. The SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) reads DVD titles at 8x and writes to 4.7-gigabyte DVD-R discs at 4x. The SuperDrive also reads CDs at 32x, writes to CD-R at 16x and writes to CD-RW at 8x.

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You want to spend your time creating things, not on figuring out how to make your tools work. Apple understands. That’s why data disc burning is integrated into Mac OS X with the Disc Burner feature. Simply drag your files onto the disc icon and eject the disc. Mac OS X takes over from there, automatically burning the disc before ejecting it.


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