Original Powerbook 400 DVD malfunction

My original Ti 400 first generation at 10.3.9 software. The DVD player works fine, but if I use the fast forward, I get Fractaled thumbnail pictures in the background, and the cursor morphs into a garbled thumbnail of text, obscuring the arrow cursor. What are the options for upgrading to a more modern dvd player, I can't find any current DVD updates for this machine.
John

Hi, bwano. The Drive Compatibility Database at www.xlr8yourmac.com contains user reports on many different optical drives that have been installed in Tibooks. There are now dozens of options with a huge variety of features. Note that your "Mercury" Tibook model uses (and requires) an optical drive mounting bracket that is not used in the three later Tibook generations, so you'll need to make sure the drive you choose is compatible with that bracket. I've never seen it myself, so I don't have any sense of what it looks like or what being compatible with it would entail.

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