PBs 1400 can use an expansion bay DVD-ROM drive using a 12x CD-ROM EBM 
shell and interface board. Laptop/slim DVD reader mechanisms are _very_ 
cheap. I tested a slim DVD-ROM reader I had laying about and it worked 
fine reading DVD-ROMs.

my page on 1400 optical EBMs:
<http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/ebms.html#1400_12x>

While PBs 1400 can access data DVDs, they cannot play video DVDs (AFAIK), 
the video hardware just ain't near-enough powerful. Hmm, unless there's a 
SW decoder that will work with a G3 upgrade under classic Mac OS. Which 
I've never seen. But about which I'd gladly learn. :-)

Any PCI desktop Macs can use an ATAPI DVD drive through a PCI/ATA 
adapter. In theory (haven't done it myself, near as I can recall) such a 
video-DVD-capable display card as a Radeon Mac Edition or R7000 can do 
the trick under both OSes 9 and X. Might require a bit of hackage to get 
installed and running, I'm not exactly familiar with the details.

hth,

Dan K

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