5 REGION DVD USED UP- LEFT IN WRONG REGION-

2005 1.67MHZ 17" POWERBOOK. TRAVELLING ASIA AND USED UP ALL 5 DVD REGIONS DUE TO SWAPPING BETWEEN AUSTRALIAN AND ASIAN DVD'S. I'M HOPING THERE IS A QUICK FIX AS IT HAS BEEN LEFT IN THAILAND REGION FOR DVD PLAYBACK. OPERATING SYSTEM 10.3.9. WOULD BE A SHAME IF IT CANT BE FIXED AS ( THOUGH I DONT KNOW IF IT'S RELATED) IT NOW BURNS DVD'S OF SLIDESHOW PHOTO'S IN IDVD OF A LESSOR QUALITY THAN IN THE OTHER REGION. VISIBALLY SO, ALMOST A SLIGHT OUT OF FOCUS SORT OF IMAGE. OR MAYBE MY DVD, SUPERDRIVE IS ON THE WAY OUT. AM UPDATING ALL SOFTWARE NOW TO SEE IF IT HELPS. ANY ADVICE WELCOME, CHEERS!!
POWERBOOK 1.67MHZ 17" 2005 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1 GIG RAM, 128 MEG V/RAM

First, Welcome to the discussions.
2nd, Please refrain from using all Capitals, yes I know it is much easier, but it is considered Screeming..
Read this Very Very Carefully.
Flashing Voids your warrntee.
If this Article doesn't furnish the correct fix for your particular Drive do a Google search for your drive and add region free at the end and it will come up with the fix if this one doesn't work for yours..
http://www.powerbook-fr.com/dossiers/dvdregion_free_enarticle30.html
Good Luck....Don

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I'm in Region 2. I only watch Region 2 DVDs, I only want to watch Region 2 DVDs. At Christmas, my DVD player was working fine with Region 2 DVDs. Today I tried to load another Region 2 DVD (for the first time since I updated the OS for the App Store, I don't know if that's relevant) and DVDPlayer tells me I'm set to Region 1, do I want to change?
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Console reports these errors when DVDPlayer crashes:
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13/01/2011 22:03:45 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[171] ([0x0-0x30c33c03].com.apple.DVDPlayer[35184]) Exited with exit code: 1
Does anyone know how I can fix this so I can watch my DVDs again?
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Edit: I have found the DVD I played before Christmas and tried playing that, and that still works. However now that I have a DVD that allows me to keep DVDPlayer open, I have found the Region settings, and it still says that it's Region 1, with 1 Drive change remaining for some reason. The DVD that works is 2+4 PAL UK (Back and forth Region 2 only), as is the DVD that doesn't work.

NTSC All regions DVD on Region 2 player?

I seem to recall that many (maybe most or even all?) PAL DVD players are able to play NTSC discs, if an NTSC DVD was created with all of the region options enabled would a region 2 player be able to play it?

HI Wes - not really a coincidence, more of a marketing process to carve up the world into the different regions.
Yes, Region 2 (Europe (except Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus), Middle East, Egypt, Japan, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, French overseas territories, Greenland) countries often also use PAL, but so do others not in Region 2 ( PAL covers most of Europe, most of Africa, China, India, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, North Korea to name a few). For example, New Zealand use PAL and are in region 4.
The TV standard is the key, IMO - make sure your footage can actually be seen in those countries, and then make the disc region free (tick ALL of the boxes and make sure it has a region code mask of 0).
My rather jaded view is that the regions simply helped ensure sales were optimised and have nothing to do with whether the disc will play back! But you are also correct in saying a lot of DVD players can play both standards these days, however I wouldn't rely on that when creating a disc.
Finally, if your disc is being burnt in your mac (or PC), make sure that you tick all of the regions in the build/format dialogue as if you don't there will be a conflict between what you are asking and what is hard coded into the DVD-R you are writing to. Region codes really only come into play if you are using a replication process.

Why is there a limit on the number of times a "DVD player region" can be changed, and can it be adjusted for more region changes, or an indefinite number of region changes?

Why is there a limit on the number of times a "DVD player region" can be changed, and can this numbert be adjusted for more region changes, or an indefinite number of region changes?

Region encoding is the mechanism that enables motion picture studios to control the worldwide release of their movies. It is required by the DVD Forum (http://www.dvdforum.org/forum.shtml) in all commercial hardware DVD players. Every DVD-Video disc contains one byte of data representing a region code, which limits where the disc can be played.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2397
Once you have set the region in DVD Player five times it cannot be changed.
Instead, use VLC to view videos from different regions:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

Multi Region DVD Please?

I've travelled around a bit and I must now have DVD from pretty much every DVD region there is. Just bought the Mac book Pro and realized that you have to select one region and are limited to just 4 region changes
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neuroanatomist wrote:
Mr-Richard wrote:
Is there software out there to help me (that does not invalidate my warranty).
No.
Buy an external optical drive, and use that to play your DVDs - those do not have the limitation in the drive firmware.
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this isn't true! apple has to do this because they pay for the codec & this is a requirement from the hollywood goons put on it, per license agreement for putting it on the machine. buying external drive is silly!
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Multi region DVD playback

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I'm in the same boat, but a bit worse off. I'm a Canadian, with a Canadian-purchased late-2008 Aluminum MacBook. BEST laptop I've ever owned. Except for the Matshita DVD drive, which has now used up its 5 allowed region swaps. I made sure the last one was to Region 2 (Canada/USA). But since I've been living in a Region 4 region now for years, my MacBook can't play any media coded for this region. There is also no firmware flash available for this drive (MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-868).
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I bought my white Macbook back in the States, as well as my collection of DVD's. However, I am currently studying abroad in the UK for well over a year, and am frustrated to no end that I cannot watch anything but region one on my computer, without switching over to region 2 (and thus, making myself unable to watch my own dvds) - other mac users in the halls have warned me that you can only switch back and forth between regions so many times before your computer is completely screwed up. Is there any way to fix your computer to be multi-region?

By licensing requirements of the owners of the DVD technology, computer DVD players and computer DVD drives limit you to five region changes before the drive locks to the region of the last DVD you use. Once the drive locks, you cannot play disks from any other region with the Apple DVD Player, and the drive itself may be locked as well; all current SuperDrives that I know of do indeed lock in the firmware.
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PowerDVD changed my DVD region! (Can I get back to Region Free?)

Sorry to bother you, but I have a problem and I'm hoping you can assist me. I purchased a new Lenovo ThinkPad T530. The first time I put in a DVD (Region 1), PowerDVD told me it couldn't play because it was the wrong region. It listed my drive region as "FREE" and that the DVD required Region 1. It asked me the question, "Are you sure you want to change your region?" I did NOT want to change the region from "FREE" to "1". I read the question several times to make sure I didn't misunderstand the question and hit the wrong button. I clicked NO. However, it changed my DVD Region! Now it's listed at Region 1 in Windows 8 Device Manager! Why would it do this? Please tell me this is just a software setting from PowerDVD, and that it hasn't changed my drive region in the Firmware. If it's been changed in the drive firmware, how can I set it back to region free? Thank you for your help.
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Hello,
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If a DVD was brought outside North America the region code would be region 2, is it possible to make back up copies of region DVD's that were bought outside North America?

Yes, Use Mactheripper.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22715
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hotlife12 wrote: there is a dvd i want that requires a " multi-regional" dvd player. Does the HP G6x have a Multi regional dvd player??
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