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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