Mac Mini Region-Free Drive?

I was curious if anyone knew whether the Mac Mini's optical drive was region-free, as far as being able to play DVD's from other parts of the world?
For instance, I live in the USA (Region 1). I'd like to purchase a couple of DVD's from Britain (Region 2). Will they play in my Mac Mini? Will I have to download any plug-ins, etc. to make it work?
Thanks!

The drive isn't region free, no. It can swap region codes 5 times (if I recall) but after that will remain on the last one set.
The easiest way to resolve this is to download VLC player. It doesn't take any notice of region codes, so the region 2 DVDs you want to play should work just fine. You can set VLC player to be the default application for DVDs in the CDs and DVDs preference pane.
VLC player can be downloaded from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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