Changing region on DVD player

Hi, I am trying to watch a PAL dvd and I know there is a way to change the region but I can't figure it out, can some one plaese help me!!

Just wondering how Apple (and probably every other computer manufacturer) managed to get that past the movie studio lawyers.
Apple wouldn't want to hard-code the region because it would mean different drives for computers headed for different parts of the world: so at least one change is necessary, from the default region to the user's region. Since there would probably be finger trouble if only one change was allowed (which Apple would have to sort out under guarantee) five is a reasonable compromise. Anyway, it's very easy to buy ordinary DVD players which can be fiddled to all regions, so Apple are actually being tougher on the subject than many other, non-computer, manufacturers.

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