DVD region compatability on Macbook

I bought a Macbook in Britain, and it wont play region 2 DVDs. Any ideas? Is it possible to de-region a Macbook, in the same way you would a DVD player?

Yes, the previous answers are absolutely correct. But just to clarify - MacBooks are allowed to change their DVD region 5 times before the 5th region becomes permanent. Presumably, this is to allow one to use your computer around the world, but not allow you to bypass DVD copyright/region laws.
So yes, it looks like you region changes are "used up". I don't know of any other way besides using a third-party solution like mentioned above.

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If I can play a DVD in Region2/Pal, how do change the DVD region in a MacBook Pro drive?
Thank you

"Changing the region code of a DVD drive
"Most DVDs are assigned a region code that corresponds to a geographic area, to help motion picture studios control the worldwide release of movies. The first time you play a DVD with a region code, you may be asked to set the DVD drive to match that code; DVD Player is restricted to playing only discs with that same region code or with no region code. If you insert a DVD that uses a different region code, a dialog appears asking you if you want to change the DVD drive’s region code.
"IMPORTANT:You can change the region code of a DVD drive only five times (including the original setting); the fifth setting is permanent. Don’t change the region code of a DVD drive unless you expect to play only DVDs that match the new region code in the future.
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"In the dialog, choose a new region code setting for the DVD drive."

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I was about to order a Region 3 DVD but then I realized that my MacBook may not be able to read that... Can MacBook Pro read Region 3 DVDs?
I bought my MacBook Recently almost right after apple introduced Intel Duo Macbook Pro...

DVD region selection is an issue you should be careful with.
I had selected region2 as I was going to be using only 2 region dvds but later on moving to India where there are so many region dvd's available I am confused how to get my DVD player work.
Out here on the forum users have suggested using VLC player to BYPASS the region on DVD player but on my 3month old Macbook Pro the VLC is not running any of the dvd. It is giving me weird error. (cdda: no audio tracks found
main: no suitable access module for `dvdnav:///dev/rdisk1') Dont know what it means.
Good luck with your dvd viewing.
Cheers!
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Is new Macbook dvd region free or not?

Want to buy one, but concern the dvd reigon lock.

Re: Is new Macbook dvd region free or not?
NO it is not region free.
However I have flashed my drive to be region free (RPC1).
It depends which model of drive shipped with your macbook has got region free firmware out there.
you can get region free (RPC1) firmware for lots of drives from the dangerous brothers
http://tdb.rpc1.org/
I had to run windows xp using bootcamp on my macbook in order to flash the DVD drive.
Please beaware that flashing your drive will invalidate its warrantly and you should only follow a flash procedure if you can afford to replace the drive should something go wrong. That being said I have been flashing dvd drives since 1999 and have never broken a drive.

DVD regions and macbook pro

Does anyone know where the DVD region information is stored, in the MBA or in the external drive?
In other words would it be possible to buy two external drives, one set to Region 1 and the other to Region 2, and then watch both American and European DVDs on the same MBA?
I'm not sure it is worth it, and I do not even have an MBA yet, but it would be interesting to know how it works.

Graham K. Rogers wrote:
It is not stored in the MacBookAir as far as I know. I tried this earlier today and while the DVD drive brings up a panel if I put in a disk from the wrong area, there was no dialogue at all on the MBA.
Good news! And the dialogue on the DVD drive allows you to change region, right? So even if I buy a DVD drive in the UK, I can set it to the American region 1?
As a note, with two videos (and two computers) I found that both times the disk would appear on the MBA but nothing would happen. You need to start the DVD Player and then it will work, unlike a machine with a drive when the player opens automatically.
That's good to know, but I would hardly have noticed. I disable that function on my Macs in the System Preferences, almost the first thing when I get a new one.

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Try:
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- If not under warranty Apple will exchange your iPod for a refurbished one for:
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You can do it an an Apple store by:
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- There are third-party places like the following that will repair the Home button. Google for more.
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DVD region change isn't needed anymore?

When i first got my macbook pro i set the dvd region to 4 not allowing to play some of my dvds which were region 1 which was fine as i didn't want to use up 1 of the 5 times to change the region.
I only watched region 4 dvds and whenever i inserted a dvd with region 1 the screen came up asking if i wanted to change the region so i could play the dvd, i always declined.
I recently got dvds which are region 4 and they are also region 'all'.
I then got a new dvd which was region 1 and i thought i would just try it out and i put it in and it automatically started playing and the screen never came up asking me to change my region.
I thought it would be just that dvd but now all my other region 1 dvds work as well.
I thought maybe i did accidentally change it to region 1 but my region 4 dvds also work without asking me to change the dvd region.
I was wondering if by doing this, if it is still using up the 5 changes allowed?
Or if it isn't as the screen is not coming up anymore and that i'm free to play any dvd now?

wayne.jensen,
you could download, install, and run DVD Info X 3 to find out the region change status of your SuperDrive.

Changing DVD region settings

Hello! I just got my MacBook Pro today and I am trying to watch DVD's on it. For some reason it is not allowing me to change the DVD region. Since I just got it today I obviously haven't had to change the region so I should still have my 5 times to change it. The option to change to region 1 is available, however the button to confirm is grey? I don't have a DVD player so this is my only way to watch! HELP!

Call Apple Care.
#1 - You have 14 days from the date of purchase to return your computer with no questions asked.
#2 - You have 90 days of FREE phone tech support.
#3 - If you've purchased an AppleCare Protection Plan, your warranty last for 3 years. You can obtain AppleCare anytime up to the first year of the purchase of your computer.
Take FULL advantage of your warranty. Posting on a message board should be done as a last resort and if you are out of warranty or Apple Care has expired.

Quicktime pro for ibook, DVD regions, MSN, Word Processing

Just wondering is it worth paying the £20 for pro? Does it help?
Also can u play region 1 DVD's on an ibook (i'm buying from uk, we're region 2)
Which is best messenger for compatibility with MSN and it's functions?
Also other than Microsoft Office, is NeoOffice or Openoffice better?
Thanks for any help

QuickTime Pro will not allow you to play any more types of files than the regular QuickTime Player will play. What the "Pro" option gives you is the editing and exporting features.
You can change your DVD region five times after the original setting. The VideoLAN Media Player does not rely on Apple's region manager and should play a DVD from any region without asking you to change. It is still beta software and it's being written by a school in France, so it's not like regular commercial software, it does have some rough edges. But, it's always played the Region 2 DVDs I have on my Region 1 PowerBook.
-Doug

DVD regions - Any way around it?

Just wondering if there's a way to play different regions on the MacBook - last time I tried some European DVD's it asked me to change regions - I can do so up to 5 time - That's NOT GOOD! Any way to set it to Universal? so I dont have to change regions - I like to flip between my DVD's that are from all over the world. Perhaps a software that works? Any input is appreciated

Hi,
I would suggest getting an external Firewire DVD drive with a Pioneer mechanism and using a third party DVD player like "VLC" to play DVDs off that.
Unfortunately, there is currently only one company that makes the 9.5mm (vs 12.5mm in other laptops) optical drives in the MacBook, and they go far further than required by their DVDCCA license in preventing people from playing other region discs. I have a MBP and I have the same problem.

How do I set the DVD region code via ARD?

We recently deployed around 200 MacBooks in a k12 environment and manage them via ARD & WGM. We forgot to set the DVD region when creating our master image and as a result, every single MacBook prompts for an admin password when attempting to use the DVD Player to view a DVD for the first time.
Instead of attending to each of the 200+ MacBooks personally and putting a DVD in and setting the region code one by one, is there a way I could do this via ARD? Unix command? Managed preference via WGM? Thanks, I appreciate any input.

I've been working on this very topic for about a year. Here's what you need to know.
1) setting the region code on your master image would result in the same behavior. Setting the region code triggers an update to the DVD drive firmware itself - it's not something that's stored in software. Obviously this is something that needs to be set on each machine individually. Setting it on the image won't affect the imaged-machines.
2) Apple seems to have gone to great lengths to hide the app that triggers this action. If they had provided a simple CLI interface to trigger this on a client machine we'd be able to use ARD to trigger the action on all of our client machines. Alas, this app is buried somewhere I can't find and seems to only rear its head when a DVD with a region code is inserted into the drive. There is one idea that popped into my head while at Macworld that I want to try to see if I can find this app but I have my doubts.
3) Failing my last ditch effort to find this app, I think our fallback will be to give users explicit rights to set the initial DVD region code on thier machines. This is something that can be done using WGM. There is a rule in /etc/authorication specifically allowing users/groups to set the region code for the first time. According to the notes, giving this access will NOT allow users to change the region code - which is a good thing - but only give them rights to do so the initial time. This way, we can empower our users to help themselves while also protecting them from resetting the region code accidentally.
In conclusion, I haven't found any way to script/push this command to a client machine. I'll definitely file this with Bug Reporter and hope Apple will give us a CLI or an ARD command to trigger this action after imaging.
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How do I configure a Pioneer DVR-XD10 external dvd writer to my macbook pro laptop?
I read online that you could use an external dvd writer on a macbook pro when the internal dvd writer died.
Please help?
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My DVD is locked into region 1 is there anyway to fix this because I need it to be on region 2.
I have been using it on the correct region which is 2 but for some unknown reason it has locked onto region 1 not allowing me to make any changes.

Jeffrey speaks well.
However, you must to right click My Computer -> property -> hardware -> device manager ->
dvd/cdrom drivers -> double/click your drive -> dvd region/tab and if you have some
remained possibilities, you can choose region 2.
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