The Action pop-up menu contains a set of choices similar to those on the 'When you insert a blank DVD' pop-up menu on the DVDs & DVDs pane, such as Open Finder and Open iDVD. When you insert a blank DVD, your Mac prompts you and provides a list of possible actions from which you can choose. Use the 'When you insert a blank DVD' pop-up menu to select the action you want your Mac to take when you put a blank DVD into your machine. Open the System Preferences utility and click the CDs & DVDs icon to open that pane. Of course, when you compare that cost on a per-MB basis, DVD-Rs seem not to be so expensive after all.Ĭreating a data DVD is very similar to creating a data CD, except that you can store up to 4.7GB of data on a single disc (compared to about 750MB on a CD).įirst, configure your Mac for the action you want it to take when you insert a blank DVD-R disc. One downside to this technology is the expense of DVD-R discs, which currently cost about $3 per disc for 2x discs or $4 per disc for 4x discs. However, because Apple's DVD-R technology works so well and is included with Mac hardware and as part of Mac OS X, Apple's technology is the focus of this section.
Just as with CD-RW drives, third-party DVD-R/DVD-RW hardware and software are available.