[cmeisenzahl]

Is there any elegant way to deal with the fact that OS X only lets you change regions I think 5 times?

Thanks in advance!

[Sethro]

I have read on some forums that its possible to flash the firmware of some Mac Superdrives with custom firmware, that way regions can be changed an unlimited amount of times. Its extreamly risky and could render your Superdrive completly useless.

Another potencial solution would be to get a cheap external DVD drive and connect it to your Mac
One thing that alot of people do is boot into Windows XP / Windows Vista by using BootCamp and as you know under Windows you can play an region with some software..

Good Luck

[cmeisenzahl]

Thanks much Sethro.

[Cold Warrior]

On some models you can flash the firmware to make it region zero.

A better option is to use VLC to play discs from many regions. You can just cancel or ignore Apple's DVD Player when it asks for a region change. Caveat: VLC's region bypass doesn't work on all DVD drives. I recently learned that Toshiba is bad about this.