So I asked support people for help and was told to check the OBVIOUS. OK. back to our regularly scheduled programming. While searching for a solution to my problem, I contacted the support people at The Little App Factory (the makers of an excellent app called Rip It), and in a quick response, someone named Jane asked me if I could actually play the DVD using Apple’s DVD Player.app. Such a dumb question… oh wait, let me try… hmmmm… Good question… heh, no I can’t… it doesn’t work! SONOFABITCH! No wonder it couldn’t rip the disc!Ĭall me an idiot I didn’t think these problems had anything to do with the fact that I had ripped out the guts of my laptop and moved the CD from internal to external. I thought maybe these problems were because I hadn’t ever used the SuperDrive to play a movie, or hadn’t set the region or jumped through any of those annoying first-time hoops.ĭigression: did you know that region-free DVD players are perfectly legal? Content providers impose regions on their discs, and the manufacturers of media players play along with this non-competitive behavior. The end result? I bought French DVDs from and can’t play them in America. This is bullsh*t. The problem is that now, your MBP doesn’t know how to find the CD drive. This is extremely annoying when you want to play a DVD. OK, let’s be honest, more realistically, it’s extremely annoying when you want to rip and compress your DVD so you can take it on the road or convert it to an MP4.
You can also get a nice little USB-connected plastic case in which you can mount your newly-naked CD/DVD super-drive. The rationale here is that you hardly ever use the CD drive, but it’s nice to have when you need it. I have a MBP and recently upgraded it by adding RAM and by removing the internal CD/DVD super-drive and replacing it with a second hard drive. There are some pretty nifty kits for doing this I used the Data Doubler, which I bought from Other World Computing.
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