Use several USB SuperDrives on a Retina MBP

I've got DVDs of different regions. I know there's a limitation for changing your region in OS X (and other operating systems), so after changing your region a few times, you can't change it anymore, so you can't play DVDs from another region anymore. I'm not completely sure, but I think this limitation is not software bound, but hardware bound.
That's why I'm wondering if it's possible to buy a seperate USB SuperDrive for each region? So, I just buy three USB SuperDrives, I connect one of them, put a region 1 DVD in it, OS X asks me to set the region to region 1 and then I can use that USB SuperDrive for region 1 DVDs. Then I connect another USB SuperDrive, put a region 2 DVD in it and OS X asks me to set the region to region 2. Then I connect the third USB SuperDrive and set it up as a region 3 drive.
Is this possible? After watching a region 3 DVD, can I just connect the region 2 drive to watch a region 2 DVD? Can I connect two USB SuperDrives at the same time? For example the region 1 drive and the region 3 drive and I can just put a region 1 DVD in the corresponding drive to watch the movie?
How about connecting the MBP to a television with HDMI? Can I just watch my DVDs with the DVD Player app using HDMI or is this not supported. I'm asking, because I've read AirPlay doesn't support streaming DVDs to an Apple TV. Does HDMI support this?
Thanks in advance.

You can follow the instructions here to copy your installation disc over to a USB jump drive: http://lifehacker.com/5347382/wintoflash-turns-your-windows-installation-dvd-int o-a-usb+based-installer

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