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Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac? How do I get it, and how do I install it?
Apple assumes that the entire world has access to fast broadband (and are prepared to pay for the considerable bandwidth usage) and wants to distribute home movies to friends and relatives via download (iCloud, YouTube, Facebook, whatever) rather than mailing them a DVD, but of course not all users in all countries have such broadband access.
You can complain via Apple’s Feedback link, perhaps suggesting that Apple could have provided a choice between burning DVDs and distributing home movies by other means. You may feel that Apple should offer greater choice in how you destribute family videos or photos to distant relatives and friends, and should not assume that every user is prepared to pay for the excessive bandwidth usage charged by ISPs for huge downloads from the App Store:
Whilst Macs with a Superdrive continue to be able to burn video DVDs, the software for so doing, iDVD, is no longer included in the iLife bundle that came with OS 10.7 Lion and beyond. And iDVD is no longer included in the iLife 11 from the online Apple Store: http://www.apple.com/ilife/. As there is no satisfactory substitute for iDVD, your only solution is to look on Amazon or eBay and try to get an older version that includes iDVD 7, i.e. iLife version 9 onwards. You should also do this if you plan to buy a new Mac anytime soon, as stocks of iLife that include iDVD will not be available for ever.
(The vastly more expensive FCPX can burn a DVD without iDVD or DVD Studio Pro involvement, but lack the themes etc of iDVD. Also, of course, there is Roxio Toast, which is the best software for burning anything but again does not offer the flexibility of iDVD.)
It is worth noting that the version of iDVD 7 included with iLife 11 only includes themes from iDVD 5-7. If you want all the older themes you should buy iLife 9, which has the same version of iDVD 7 but with all the themes, which none of the iDVD 7 updaters available from Apple Downloads include.
Currently the only certain way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:
This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.
But even though you can still buy iLife 9 or 11 that includes iDVD 7 from Amazon, Apple now make it difficult to install:
When you try to install iDVD you may see a notice come up on the screen stating that the 'Authorisation Licence' had expired on 25 March 2012, because Apple have withdrawn the license to it can no longer be used.
In other words Apple have declared iDVD as redundant and have made it difficult to install, but there is a workaround:
If you get an invalid certificate message just set your Mac's clock to sometime before early 2011 and run the installer. After installing iDVD reset the time back to the correct time on your Mac.
You may be to use able to use the installer even without setting back the date. Just click on the Continue button and it should work as expected, but for some it will not continue unless the date is set back.
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Apple has phased out optical disc drives on all new Macs, offering an external USB Superdrive as an option for users who need one but which is not universally compatible with all Macs.
Users may have fewer need to use optical drives, as the bulk of third party software is now available as a digital download either directly from the vendor or through Apple's App Store. but not all. Apple sees digital distribution as the future of music and movies, as exemplified in Apple TV, which has never included an optical drive.
The company has never supported any new HD optical disc formats on its products, including Microsoft's ill fated HD-DVD or Sony's Blu-ray format, despite initially being involved in the Blu-ray standardization process. Instead, Apple has put its resources behind developing increasingly higher definition audio and video formats that it can distribute electronically through its own iTunes Store.
And if you think Microsoft are any better, their latest Windows 8 operating system will not play DVDs, or burn them, unless customers buy an extra upgrade, the company has announced: http://www.gizmag.com/windows-8-no-dvd-playback/22443/
In other words, computer manufacturers have declared optical media as dead, long before consumers are ready to stop using them, which is fine as long as they offered us a choice, but they won’t even do that. Flexibility and intuitive use of a computer seems to be a thing of the past.
But they still include iMovie for making a lower quality versions for YouTube etc.
Dictionary entry details
• TOAST(noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slices of bread that have been toasted
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ('toast' is a kind of.):
bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of 'toast'):
cinnamon toast (buttered toast with sugar and cinnamon (and nutmeg and grated lemon peel))
orange toast (buttered toast with sugar and grated orange rind and a little orange juice)
Melba toast (very thin crisp brown toast)
Brussels biscuit; rusk; twice-baked bread; zwieback (slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp)
Derivation:
toast (make brown and crisp by heating)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
he was the toast of the town
Hypernyms ('toast' is a kind of.):
celebrity; famous person (a widely known person)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person in desperate straits; someone doomed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
goner; toast
Context example:
one mistake and you're toast
Hypernyms ('toast' is a kind of.):
desperate (a person who is frightened and in need of help)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
pledge; toast
Hypernyms ('toast' is a kind of.):
drink (a single serving of a beverage)
Derivation:
toast (propose a toast to)
• TOAST(verb)
| Conjugation: |
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make brown and crisp by heating
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
crisp; crispen; toast
Context example:
crisp potatoes
Hypernyms (to 'toast' is one way to.):
heat; heat up (make hot or hotter)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
toast (slices of bread that have been toasted)
toaster (a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread)
toasting (cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill)
Sense 2
Capo 3 2 1. Meaning:
Propose a toast to
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
drink; pledge; salute; toast; wassail
Context example:
Let's drink to the New Year
Hypernyms (to 'toast' is one way to.):
honor; honour; reward (bestow honor or rewards upon)
'Toast' entails doing.:
booze; drink; fuddle; hit the bottle (consume alcohol)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to 'toast'):
give (propose)
Sentence frames:
Pc link mac. Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
toast (a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event)
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