To all:
I have a PB G3 PDQ (266MHz, 3.81GB Drive) and I have a question about
the DVD Module available for these earlier powerbooks.
It appears you have to have a DVD PCMCIA card to accompany a DVD
drive, otherwise it won't work, UNLESS there is some mysterious DVD
Decoder module installed on
That model was never shipped with a built-in DVD decoder. The first
laptop to have that as an option was the Lombard.
The DVD drive will work as a disk drive without the DVD PCMCIA card,
but you won't be able to play DVD video. Your only option for watching
DVDs on that machine is to buy a DVD
The National Enquirer reports at 4:34 PM +1000 10/29/04, Ben Dyer wrote:
That model was never shipped with a built-in DVD decoder. The first
laptop to have that as an option was the Lombard.
The DVD drive will work as a disk drive without the DVD PCMCIA card,
but you won't be able to play DVD
