

My local store is still full of them and they are selling. Every person I know has a stack of DVD’s. Since he made that comment hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on both commercial and blank DVD’s. Many moons ago Steve Jobs said that DVD and other plastic media were dead.

I have been using Apple products since the 80’s and the company has never failed to piss me off on a regular basis. Know of any other helpful tips or tricks about the DVD Player or SuperDrive in MacOS? Share in the comments below! If you feel so inclined you could always make a copy or an alias of the DVD Player app and place it into your regular /Applications folder, but whether that is necessary likely depends on how often you use the DVD Player app on the Mac. The DVD Player app will be located at this location even on Macs that don’t officially support the SuperDrive (though recall that you can make the SuperDrive work even on unsupported Macs if you need to). You can use the wildly useful Go To Folder keyboard shortcut to access that directory quickly from the Finder, where you’ll find the DVD Player app sitting alongside other helpful utilities that are sort of hidden in Mac OS, including Network Utility, Archive Utility, System Profiler, Screen Sharing, and Wireless Diagnostics. System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/ The DVD Player app has been relocated from the root /Applications folder to a buried system folder, it’s new location in MacOS Mojave 10.14 onward is at the following location:

You can also hold the COMMAND key down while you hit Return / Enter to access the containing directory right from Spotlight, though we’ll discuss the new location of the DVD Player app next.

