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Up until the last year or so, Sonic's support of the Mac was actually quite strong. Especially across their professional audio and DVD product lines. But Apple has intentionally roadblocked Sonic's ability to port DVD Creator to OS X. As for your question about compatibility, you mentioned that Apple "controls the burner". I'm not talking about burned DVDs. I'm talking about professionally authored "Hollywood-level" DVDs. These kind of DVDs aren't "burned" to anything. They are mastered onto DLT (a tape format) for mass replication. Sonic has been in the DVD authoring business since 1995 and spends over half of it's development budget studying the nuances of all of the DVD players and chip sets on the market, and then optimizes it's DVD Multiplexer so as to be as compatible as is physically possible. Like I said DVD Studio pro is a great "ProSumer" application. But even with 2.0 there is no way Apple could duplicate the research and effort that Sonic put into DVD compatibility over the last 8 years. It's sad that we will likely never see a Mac OS X version of their software. It has forced me to choose between an inferior product, or switching to Windows. Neither one is a good choice.... so maybe I'll just stick with OS 9 and outdated hardware.