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Region free USB DVD player?
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Clinically Insane
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I have a student who's from Holland. He has a lot of Dutch movies (including legitimate educational DVDs his parents make him watch for English learning). He's using a school issued MacBook and I know I can't have him toggle the region without it region locking after only a few times.
Does anyone know of a USB region free DVD player? Something small he can carry with him so he can watch his movies.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Come to think of it, maybe it doesn't even need to be region free. I just need to be able to set it Region 2. Can an external player be a different region from the internal? Not sure if this would mess up DVD player or not.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Administrator  Join Date: May 2000
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Try alternate players. VLC can play back DVDs and might be able to ignore the region lock. MPlayer plays DVDs too, but may have trouble with the menus. You can also try copying the DVD to the hard drive before playback - DVD Player and the others will play back video_ts folders from the hard drive.
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I don't think VLC ignores regions anymore, unless you can find an older copy. The above idea of ripping should solve the problem. Use Handbrake and rip the DVDs to MP4 movies, it should decode them. Otherwise, if you use Mac the ripper, it should create a Video_TS folder and break any region coding, which will allow you to burn them onto a DVD-R again, or at that point, play the video_ts folder with VLC, that should work.
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Quick Google on Region Free firmware for the MacBook looks promising. I'll investigate that.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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FYI, yes, different drives can have different region codes (it's saved in the drive itself). That's exactly how I solved that problem on my Mac Pro.
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So let's say you have DVDs from three different regions. You would just have two external drives, with the internal drive set to the region you use most? That makes sense, and even sounds "affordable," if you can find the drives at a good price.
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I cannot say with 100% certainty that it'd work with off-the-shelf externals; sometimes DVD Player doesn't like to accept externals.
But in theory, yes, that's exactly how it should work. And I'm 100% sure it'd work that way on MacBook Air SuperDrives, since those are supported for playback. (Alas, those drives only work on the Air.)
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