I cant play my dvd disc despite prompting me to change the region.

Hi,
As mentioned above
I guess i have set the region five times but everytime i would set the same region. (not sure if that counts altogether.)
now i bought a new movie dvd and when i insert it, it prompt me again to change. But when i had changed the regioin, it unable to play the disc. My Dvd player is of version 5.4.
Need help
Thanks

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 he 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

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