DVD Players For MacBook Pro

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DVD Players

I know this isn’t specifically a Mac/Apple question but I don’t know who else to ask so I’m hoping fellow TidBits members can help. I haven’t had a DVD player for years, thought I was done w/them. Lately I’ve found that many older movies & taped concerts aren’t available via streaming, the only way to watch them is to buy the DVD. I’m considering buying a DVD player so I can watch old movies/concerts but it’s been so long since I’ve used a DVD player, I don’t know anything about them anymore. …

Apple SuperDrive has no manual eject!

I’ve been using a USB SuperDrive for a long time (since 2011). And it’s been working great all this time. Until tonight, when, while ripping an old album from CD (Jesus Christ Superstar), the disc wouldn’t eject. I’d push the button. The mechanism would make all the usual sounds, but the disc wouldn’t come out. Failed several times. For some crazy reason, I assumed that this drive, like most other optical drives, has a mechanism for a manual eject. Like a pinhole where you could insert a …