I Cant play burn DVD due to no support of superdrive??

I tried to turn on the iDVD application and had the following comment pop-up
"Your Macintosh doe snot have a supported Superdrive. Please note that while you will be able to work with iDVD projects, you will not be able to burn a DVD disc"
This is crazy. I thought I could burn DVD on my i-mac.

Thanks everyone. It seems it does have it. This is what is witten
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K06:
Firmware Revision: Q609
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No
Now my question is can I stick in the small DVD (3 1/2 inch) into the drive? I want to collate all my video recording which is on the small size DVD disk and burn it on the larger size DVD disk through the i-mac.

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