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DVD Region settings

Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by rectian, Aug 2, 2007.

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Hi All,
Is there anyway to get rid of region settings of the DVD drive in Macbook. I recently played couple of movies i bought from Europe. And then today i tried to play a movie i got via Netflix. Immediately the DVD Player software prompted a pop-up window saying that my DVD region is set to 2 ,so if i want to play this one, i have to revert back to region 1. As usual it allows me for 4 more changes . Can't we permanently set to region 0 . I am a recent switcher to mac, i thought macs doesn't have the region complications!!! apparently it does!!!!!!!!

Solutions are welcome. thanks.

rectian, Aug 2, 2007

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Uhh, search it on google. You may need to do illegal crap to get by it... but you didnt hear that from me.

Stunner, Aug 3, 2007

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Play the movies in VLC. The Macbook drive is region free, it's the DVD Player application that's locked.

Budding, Aug 3, 2007

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Thanks a lot budding!!! Eventually i googled and got the same answer. I was sure of onething that the macbook drive is region free, but couldn't able to figure it out, which one is giving problem.

rectian, Aug 3, 2007

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