The Super Drive in the new G4 Apple Macintosh is absolutely compatible with home DVD players like the Pioneer. In fact, Apple contracts Pioneer to build this particular drive for them.
There are a few home DVD players that have problems with CD's burned from computers, regardless if Mac or Windows machines. Several threads here at Audiogon have covered this topic. You should look these up to gain insight from many Audiogoner's experiences.
The only other issue with recording 8 MM tapes to DVD is the conversion to digital. If your home movies are analog, you must buy an analog to digital converter before feeding it into the G4 Mac. Several companies offer these at less than $200.00.
If your 8 MM tape library is extensive, consider that for every 10 minutes of DVD burn, a Gigabyte of hard disk space is required. The new Apple G4 with a 80 GB hard drive should burn feature length DVD's in a single pass.
If you make this purchase, I hope you will return to this thread and post your experiences. I am especially interested in knowing about image quality.
There are a few home DVD players that have problems with CD's burned from computers, regardless if Mac or Windows machines. Several threads here at Audiogon have covered this topic. You should look these up to gain insight from many Audiogoner's experiences.
The only other issue with recording 8 MM tapes to DVD is the conversion to digital. If your home movies are analog, you must buy an analog to digital converter before feeding it into the G4 Mac. Several companies offer these at less than $200.00.
If your 8 MM tape library is extensive, consider that for every 10 minutes of DVD burn, a Gigabyte of hard disk space is required. The new Apple G4 with a 80 GB hard drive should burn feature length DVD's in a single pass.
If you make this purchase, I hope you will return to this thread and post your experiences. I am especially interested in knowing about image quality.