SuperDrive and changing region encoding

I am going on a trip to New Zealand for a few months (business training) and am looking for a new laptop to take with. I am planning to take along DVDs I already own, but would like to be able to watch DVDs I pick up locally as well.
I know that some drives can be swapped back and forth between regions a set number of times before they "stick" on one. My questions are:
1) Can the Super Drive play DVDs from both region 1 (US) and region 4 (NZ, among other places)?
2) If it needs to switch between them when I put one from region 1 and then region 4, is there a limit to the number of switches allowed?
3) Is there software that can aid in this effort? (I realize that last question skirts the boundary of legality, and I am an attorney, so it needs to be legal.)
Thanks in advance for any advice.

I am considering switching my primary laptop to one of the new MacBook Airs but, as a frequent traveler, also need to find a region free DVD solution. This is for my personal use--nothing illegal--but the greater difficulty of getting around region settings on Macs (as compared to PCs) is one of the main factors that has kept me from making the leap.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben

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for every output: one to the left, the pixel that's at the same
coordinate as the output pixel, and one to the right of that.
Simple. If you consider what happens at the edge of the image,
though, things get more complicated. If you processing the result
for the very left edge of the output image, say at coordinate
(0,0), you'll need to sample three pixels, (-1, 0), (0, 0), (1, 0).
You need to account for the negative values when sampling. There is
a similar problem on the other edge where you will be sampling at a
location greater than the output window on the right. This means
that to produce an output of size 512, you actually need an input
of size 514 (one extra pixel for the left, and one extra pixel for
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noticeable, but if you made the radius large, you would see the
difference. Additionally, you are probably asking why we need this
level of detail in the filter. In most simple examples, no one
would ever notice this since we often have a single input image and
execute a single filter on it. However, because these filters can
be used as a small part of the workflow for professional graphics
and effects applications, getting these details right is very
important for the filter to render the correct results in all
cases.
Since you asked specifically about the basicBoxBlur sample,
here's a breakdown. Note that the functions are exactly the same
code because it's a convolution.
float2 singlePixel = pixelSize(src);
This is getting the pixel aspect ratio. One thing I didn't
mention is the notion of the pixel aspect ratio and the need to
account for this when calculating the regions (this is the subject
of another post entirely).
return outset(outputRegion, float2(singlePixel.x *
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The next line is increasing the requested region by the size
of the blur window radius (conceptually expand the single radius
out to a radius of size blurRadius). We take the ceiling of the
blur radius in case the radius is a non-integral value.
I hope that helps clear up any confusion. Please let me know
if you have any questions or need clarification on any points. By
the way, I'm very impressed with your list of filters, and I wish
you the best of luck with the sorting ones.
Thanks,
Brian Ronan

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