Downloading idvd

I have been a professional mac user for over a decade.  I regularly author dvds for clients as part of my workflow.  Why you ask?  My clients demand dvds for their bosses to preview, their marketing directors to reference and it is ESSENTIAL for my business.  I'll refrain from including any foul language here.  I'm currently on deadline, my newly updated mac pro tower had both dvd burners fail at once and my new imac 27" does not have idvd.  Why?  I purchased an external dvd burner for the express purpose of using this machine to author dvds.  Please, for the love of God stop making unilateral decisions about your hardware and software without any consultation with your loyal customers.  I already had to change from FCP to the Adobe suite because FCP X is a collosal piece of junk even after the upgrades.  Were you aware that after the inclusion of the blade tool (like such a tool needs to be "included") every time you use it on your timeline it creates an audio artifact when you export the timeline?  The current upgrade crashes virtually EVERY TIME you load it.  If this continues my next hardware purchases will be PCs. Please refer me to a link where I might be able to download iDVD for this computer.
Yours,
Harvey

You'll need to purchase a copy of iLife 09 or 11 from a 3rd party retailer like Amazon.com: iLife 11. Both will give you iDVD 7,  7.0.3 from 09 and 7.1 from 11. 
However  If you purchase the iLife 09 disk you'll get all of the themes from iDVD 1 thru 5.
iLife 11 only provides iDVD 5-7 themes. 
If you get the iLife 09 disc then the iDVD 7.0.1 updater, which includes iDVD 6-7 themes, can be used to complete the set of themes. If the updater doesn't work on the iLife 09 iDVD 7.0.3 application you can use   Pacifist to install those themes from that installer.
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    http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U

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    burkefromsanta cruz wrote:
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