Can new Macbook play region 2 dvd's ?

Question

Just wondering if my new macbook aluminum can play dvd' from England (region 2 I believe)
Many thanks,

Answer 1

Douglas McLaughlin wrote:
ypw is correct. The very first time you play a DVD video, your region should automatically be set to the region of the DVD you're playing. If you're not an admin user, you will be asked to set the region and put in an admin password. After that, you can change the region five times.
If you want to play a DVD from another region, you may be able to use the VLC Media Player to bypass the region setting. I don't think there's a problem with suggesting that here, it's been done many times in the past. However, as the VLC Media Player is still in development and beta, some versions will play other region DVDs and some won't. Recently, it's been more unlikely that you'll be able to play a DVD from another region with the current version.
I've seen suggestions for bypassing region control by using VLC getting deleted by mods. Region control is considered a form of digital rights management, albeit a fairly simple one.
In any case, I've heard that VLC doesn't override region controls with the latest Matshita drives or pretty much any new drive. The drive itself will check the content and refuse to play region coded discs outside the currently set region. I understand that the older Pioneer and Matshita drives didn't actually have any region coding in the drive itself, and in that case Apple's DVD Player region coding was done in OSX.