Looks like it can't do everything.

The Mac finally showed its first sign that it isn't the be-all-end-all product everyone in Film and Graphic Design said it can be. Sure, it will last me for a long time, but last night I discovered something that compromised its use.

These past few nights, I've been revisiting old DVDs to watch episodes that I liked for one reason or another before going to sleep. It sort of acts like a pallet cleanser for the mind. Last night, when I popped in one of the DVDs, the Mac said that it couldn't recognize it. The help section wasn't much help at all, but that's par for the course in most situations. All it said was that there are some formats that the MackBook just won't read at all.

Which is odd since it is a commercial DVD, and you would think those being professionally manufactured would have the widest range of compatibility. Apparently not.

With all the technology breaking down for one reason or another, the household is left with two DVD players: the one on the Mac and the one on the PC. There is a 50% chance that a DVD will fail to read now. And I thought gambling with intrusive DRMs was bad.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging sans the tech talk.