Off topic request

[Nick Cope]

Does anyone know how to play region 1 DVDs on a Mac Powerbook without having to screw up its region thingy? You can only play various regions of DVDs a few times before it 'commits' to a particular region, which is darned annoying!

Seeing as it's just software, I was wondering if anyone's come across some kind of patch to enable multi regions all the time... any of that make sense?

[sermad]

You can do this but you need to update the firmware on your dvd drive. Its not that scary but you can fry your dvd if you don't follow the instructions.

You need to find out exactly what dvd drive is in your machine then you need to get the hacked firmware for that drive. Once you have updated that you can then run a dvd region free app and run any dvd's.

http://xvi.rpc1.org/

http://forum.rpc1.org/viewforum.php?f=30

should get you started.

[Nick Cope]

Cheers Serm, sounds scary though!

[Nick Cope]

Went to this place: http://wormintheapple.gr/macdvd/ downloaded my region free firmware and the region setter -- no problem, took minutes and it works great, in case any other mac users out there are loking to make their DVD player multi-regional...