Regionless DVD Players for Mac OS X?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 5, 2002 @12:53AM from the bypassing-lame-limitations dept.

spooje would like to get to the core of the following issue: "Since a new Rochester DVD only store, Global DVD, just opened up with a large Asian section I decided to rent several. When I got home and popped one in my Mac (Sawtooth G4 running Mac OS X 10.2) it brought up a dialog box telling me the DVD was region 3. I could switch to region 3 mode, but I could only do this 4 more times. Since my DVD-RAM drive is supposed to be all region does anyone know of a workaround or patch for the Apple DVD player, or maybe even another DVD player for Mac OS X?" If this question sounds familiar, then it might be because, last week, Ask Slashdot ran a similar article, which focused on a Windows utility which did this.

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Here's the page :-) by danwarne · 2002-11-05 08:58 · Score: 2, Interesting

This page has every Mac DVD hack you could ever want... http://opuscc.com/download/
somehow, I'm not having any problems! by An+anonymous+Frank · 2002-11-05 16:21 · Score: 2, Interesting

The first DVD I inserted was a zone/region 1 disk and thus my drive and the Apple DVD Player were set. Using DVDInfo 2 (and booting in OS 9) I confirmed that I had 4 changes and 4 resets left on my 14.1" dual-USB (with no reset button) RPC-2 iBook combo (Sony) drive. (Note: Don't you love the way one specifies a Mac model?) This is despite having watched a zone 2 movie purchased online through a French site. The movie's cover (and the online site) clearly states that this is a zone 2 DVD. Yet I've not registered a zone change!!! Mind you I'm not complaining; the movie cost me dearly and I'll be able to watch it as many times as I like. But I'd just love to understand what is taking place here!!! Is that DVD really a zone 2 disk?