Morning and Welcome to 2008,
Happy and Safe New Year to one and all!
I think you will find the drives are region free, But it is software
that has the locking or regional restrictions. Apple has it on its
DVD player (Software) as does Sony, Xbox with game devices. DVD
players DVDrecorders, and set top HDD devices that I have utilised as
in recent stock, have ways of removing or do not have at all.
I would assume that Apple, Sony, and Xbox reasoning would be to do
with copyright and protection of such laws between countries. Oh and
responsible corporate clients they are. Why in this present day
situation of Global commercialisation and bastardry; not totally
necessary or sure. But Apple would be keeping friendly with studios
and their need to make every cent possible out of every place
possible, due to future expansion of iTunes(iPod) into the visual
since it has transcended the audio. I would also suggest release
dates of certain movies and also restrictions on some cinema that is
not supposed to be played in certain countries, or variations
specific to those countries. Sony and Xbox use this as their
reasoning for country coding games.
External Devices try http://streetwise.com.au around $200 with Toast
8 software, also try Daniel and http://zytech.com.au
Cheers!
`Rob...
On 31Dec2007, at 18:40 pm, Kyle Kreusch wrote:
hi all
I was looking at getting a dual layer DVD drive Couple of months ago
at Harvey Norman.
it was an LG and I cam not remember what the model number was it was
$63 For the drive
End you can get a enclosure for about $70 to $90 And I'm pretty sure
you could make it region free to
Regards, Kyle
On Dec 31, 2007 4:22 PM, Mark Secker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
while we're talking DVD drives and region encoding, does anybody
know/recommend a good FireWire or USB2 external dual layer DVD R/W
drives that can support multi region disks (can be, preferably, bios
cracked or at least will work with VLC)
Actually VLC does work on Intel Macs with the DVD's.
It just doesn't work on Intel Macs that had a certain DVD drive them
due to this drive having the ability to lock itself down and not
allow
VLC to bypass the region lock
On Dec 31, 2007 10:39 AM, Jude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
VLC works fine here on my eight core Intel Mac Pro. It's one of
the
'can opener' video applications. Well worth owning, especially
at the
price. (free)
cheers
Jude
The way round playing all dvds on my old mac was using VLC
However, I have read that VLC doesn't work with the intel macs.
Anyone any ideas? Or other solutions?
Rosemary Horton
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