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If you are in the USA and your DVDs are coded for USA then select region 1. If you have a DVD coded for a different region (check to see if that is the case with the DVD in question), do not keep changing the DVD player's region; each DVD player can only have its region changed 5 times. The 5th change is permanent. VikingOSX. Community+ 2024.
Bypassing a region code certainly isn't illegal in the UK, its down to individual DVD distributors to region code thier product not hardware manufacturers. Perhaps this isn't the ideal solution, but you could simply purchase an external DVD drive and set the region. There are some external bus-powered versions out there that are fairly small.
Region changes on one drive will not affect the region or counter of the other drive. On computers with internal DVD drives, Apple's DVD Player may not play discs in external drives. The following Terminal command may help: sudo nvram boot-args="mbasd=1" (A PRAM reset will clear it.) Before going tp the trouble of an extra DVD drive, try VLC.
Then plug in the external drive and insert the DVD. No prompt will appear. Then launch VLC player and select File.. Open Disc and you should be good to go. This may even work for the previous gen MacBook pro which already have DVD drives, the only thing is if they already set the region code then probably not work.
You have a DVD player set to Region 2 Europe and you want to play Region 1 USA disc. You need to reset the Player to either play as a Region 1 player or use a "hack" to set it as Region Free. Most Players allow you to change the region setting up to 5 times before they lock to a specific region.
YES, YOU CAN UNLOCK dvd player. I have an external apple dvd player. Didn't realize I only had 5 times to go back & forth so it locked on a non-US region. FIX: put a music cd into the dvd player. After it recognizes the cd & begins to play, pop it out & put your dvd in, and VOILÀ, it works!!!! (3) kurt188. Level 4.
You can find region-free firmware hacks on the web for many DVD drives. Google your Superdrive's manufacturer/model# + region-free + firmware. AFAIK, it's perfectly legal to give your own DVD player a region-ectomy. I've been meaning to neuter mine ...as soon as I get a round tuit. Looby
With a DVD in the drive, use “Get Disc Info” in DVD Player's File menu, then click the “Regions” tab. That will show the DVD’s and the drive’s region setting, and the number of region changes available. If the drive and the disc do not match, then the above is not available. But the mis-match warning will still provide the info on ...
It's not your MacBook, but primarily your DVD drive that has to be 'region-free'. Apple does not manufacture the drives. And the answer is, no, there's no easy way. parker612 wrote: I believe that this is an issue that comes up when viewing DVDs with Apple's DVD Player. No, that's incorrect. It's the drive, not the player, that's the issue.
Hello, I have purchased a HP USB External DVDRW Drive (Model - GP70N). I have tested it on a Windows device and it works fine. Howver when connecting to my MacBook Air M1 it does not work. The green light keeps blinking and nothing happens. The External Drive does not appear and is not recognized.