On 08/08/2005, at 11:06 AM, 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?
In other words can doing a clean re-install of the OS wipe out that
record.
Or can we delve into the depths of the system and remove that record?
Bye the way, I have no idea of why he would want to copy Chinese
DVDs. :-)
Any ideas or information would be of help.
Thanks
Lloyd
Hi Lloyd,
If he only wants to play the DVD's.
VLC Media Player allows you to play any region DVD WITHOUT firmware.
So what you need to do is disable opening of DVD player when a DVD
is inserted.
Then open VLC and press play. A menu will come up asking you to
select a file or disk to open. Select a disc and open the DVD and
start playing.
There is an 'interesting' read here:
Set Your DVD Drive to Region Free
http://www.powerbook-fr.com/dossiers/dezonage/indexGB.html
Cheers,
Ronni
