Playing DVDs from another zone

I am an American doing my PhD work in New Zealand. I purchased my Macbook in the US, so it plays my dvds from home fine. Since I will be living in NZ for the next 3 years it would be nice to play NZ dvds also. I have tried using VLC freeware but it doesn't seem to recognize the NZ dvds I have tried so far. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for your help!

Why is VLC the key? Don't get me wrong, I love it, but your Apple DVD Player will play the MTR'd Video-TS files just fine.
But I believe your original question related to ripping to the hard drive. In that case, I prefer one-stop rip and compression using Handbrake. Output files are plenty fine viewing in Quicktime fullscreen on a MBP - it's only 15 inches after all - at around 1/7th the file size. I have roughly 60 movies on my MBP instead of six or seven TS files.
I do the same with my iPod, then just plug the iPod into the hotel room TV and watch them that way.
If I'm simply going to use MTR for a file size same as source, I'll just bring the DVDs or rip them to blanks.

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