Macintosh PowerBook DVD-Video PC Card Manual

The Macintosh PowerBook DVD-Video PC Card manual is Apple's 12-page user guide, dated 1998, for the DVD-Video PC Card sold for the PowerBook G3 Series. It covers installing the card and the Apple DVD Player software, playing discs, battery use, picture quality, connecting a television and troubleshooting.

Contents

• System requirements: a PowerBook G3 Series computer, a DVD-ROM expansion bay module, an active-matrix display or external monitor, and Apple DVD Player with QuickTime 3 (p. 3).
• Getting started: install the software, restart, then push the card into the lower PC Card slot, the only one with the Zoomed Video interface; about 4 mm of the card stays outside the slot (pp. 3–4).
• Problems inserting the card, with the manual eject button and paper-clip hole (p. 4).
• Playing DVD-Video discs with Apple DVD Player (pp. 4–5).
• DVD-Video and battery power; the card runs warm, so let it cool before ejecting it (p. 5).
• Improving performance: mains power, virtual memory off, Energy Saver at maximum performance; an external monitor for the 12.1-inch passive-matrix models (p. 5).
• Viewing on a television through the optional S-video port or an RCA cable, with sound from the sound-out port, at 640 × 480 (p. 6).
• Troubleshooting (pp. 6–7 onwards): region codes; copy protection; volume changes between audio formats; discs that do not implement UDF properly, which can be read as ISO 9660 by holding Command-Option-I while reinserting them; Apple DVD Player 1.0 quitting when the PowerBook sleeps.

What this manual does not contain

• No hardware specifications for the card; those are in Apple's DVD-Video Kit specification sheet in the PowerBook G3 Series Service Source.
• Nothing on the DVD-ROM module itself beyond inserting a disc.

Pages that cite this document

• Apple PowerBook Expansion Bay Modules

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