Super-Drive region playability issues...

I work at an authorized campus reseller, and a professor stopped in and said he makes frequent trips between the US and Italy. However, he has switched the region of his DVD player so many times that it is now stuck in region-2 which is europe, of course. Is there any firmware or easy fix thing I can do or download.
your help is much needed and greatly appreciated!

Bob,
the EASIEST solution for your prof would be to start using the VLC player instead of Apple's DVD Player.
You can download it for free at videolan.org. It is extremely clever and well made, very slick, has a good design, plays virtually EVERY possible format available - and it does not care at all what region your DVD comes from.
Just remember, after you installed VLC, to change the CD/DVD preferences in the System Prefs (under the Apple menu) to open VLC when you insert a DVD - otherwise the annoying Apple DVD Player would come up nagging...
Ah, I forgot, VLC is free.

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