The older powerbooks sometime have region free firmware depending on the
model.
The newest powerbooks are still waiting for region free firmware. I know
because I'm still waiting for it :D
Mal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Ringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: DVD regional codes
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:06 +0800, Lloyd White wrote:
I am helping a newbie Mac user and have come up against a problem I have
not
encountered before. He was given a couple of Chinese DVDs with different
zone codes and copied them to his hard disk and got a warning that he
had
only 2 uses more and he would lose the use of his super drive. He is now
worried.
Is this use of a different zone recorded somewhere or is it in the
firmware?
It's in the firmware.
In other words can doing a clean re-install of the OS wipe out that
record.
No.
Or can we delve into the depths of the system and remove that record?
Generally not, though it depends on the drive.
What you *CAN* do, for some drives, is re-flash them with firmware that
doesn't care about region codes. This isn't entirely safe, and you'd
need to find firmware for the drive.
There are also programs that run at the OS level that manage to make the
drive overlook these issues.
--
Craig Ringer
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