DVD Region Problem
My new MBP arrived today and naturally, I loaded up the apps. Then I tried a couple DVD's. The First one was Region 1, so it worked fine. Then I tried a Region 2 disk. Immediately, before I could boot up VLC, I got a popup telling me that in order to watch the disk I needed to change the region code etc. etc. Needless to say, I declined and the DVD ejected. Is there any way to stop this from happening? VLC works fine on my WinBox. Is this a sign of Apple clamping down or am I just missing something?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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Originally posted by mynamehere ? got a popup telling me that in order to watch the disk I needed to change the region code etc. ? [/B]
you are allowed to change 5 times the region code on a laptop (PC/Mac) - after that, the last settings are "burned" into the hardware of your dvd drive, you can not change that...
some drives can be "hacked" to be region-free, that depends very much on manufacturer, type, model, no. ... very tricky....
google for "apple region-free"
Noah
Originally posted by k_munic
you are allowed to change 5 times the region code on a laptop (PC/Mac) - after that, the last settings are "burned" into the hardware of your dvd drive, you can not change that...
some drives can be "hacked" to be region-free, that depends very much on manufacturer, type, model, no. ... very tricky....
google for "apple region-free"
A few things...I did figure out the stop DVD player from automatically loading about 5 minutes after posting here. VLC on the other hand, still won't play DVD's from other regions, which is strange because it works fine on my PC...shrug.