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Solution for region free DVD.......
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I installed another set of Mac OS 10.2.6 on my Smart Disk Fire Lite 60GB (external hard drive), since it's a brand new system, I choose another DVD zone on that drive! So now my 17" PowerBook could watch zone 1, if I want to watch zone 3, I just swith to the external drive!
~Eric 
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But doesn't the drive record the changes as well?
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Happy owner of a new 15" Al PB.
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Yeah, that...shouldn't work. The firmware of the DVD drive is what is important, and if you change it too many times you will be locked into one region.
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The drive itself is independent, it's the OS which recognized and memorized the number of times on changing the DVD zones....
~Eric
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Originally posted by Icruise:
Yeah, that...shouldn't work. The firmware of the DVD drive is what is important, and if you change it too many times you will be locked into one region.
Trust me, it works......every time I re-install the OS on my Mac, it automatically resets the counter of the DVD zones to 5 chances. Soon I realized that the lock is applies on the OS not on the hardware or firmware!
~Eric
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Originally posted by Icruise:
Yeah, that...shouldn't work. The firmware of the DVD drive is what is important, and if you change it too many times you will be locked into one region.
Icruise~
You were right about it! It does stick with the drive......  Guess I was wrong!
~Eric
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so eric
are you stuck to one region now?
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Originally posted by bananastylez:
so eric
are you stuck to one region now?
no! luckily, I still have one more chance.....which I need to choose wisely~
~Eric
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Originally posted by erichen:
no! luckily, I still have one more chance.....which I need to choose wisely~
~Eric
That's where I am stuck too. I'm setting it to the region the majority of my favorite DVDs have. But before I do that, I will copy the DVDs with the other region to disk with DVDBackup and remove the region coding. So at least I'll be able to watch them from the HD.
This is a case where it's kind of a bummer that the optical drive of the portable Macs can't be switched quickly. Otheriwse I'd just get a cheap PC DVD drive as a secondary drive and use it for the other region codes...
If you have a PowerMac it of course works if the SuperDrive is set to one code and the an additional Combo is set to another.
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