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Region code change on DVD Player
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please help ,I have changed the drive region code 5 more times,so now it doesnt plays any dvds, how can i reset it,or what i can do?
please let me know what can be done.
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Tough luck.
The only way to change that is to get a hacked firmware for the DVD drive.
You'd need to google that.
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DVD drives can only change their region code 5 times. After the 5th time, it's permanent. You can attempt to update the firmware as turtle777 suggested. Go to your Apple menu, then About This mac. Then click on More Info... Click on Disk Burning, then note the model of your Super Drive (i.e. MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E)
You'll then have to Google for a Region Free Firmware or hack for your model drive. Not all of them work.
Otherwise, you have to buy a new optical drive. If your laptop is under warranty still, Apple might replace it for free. Might. They're pretty sketchy on that.
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Apple can reset that 5 time thing, at least they could a few years back, but you really had to annoy them to get them to do that.
A good place to start looking for a region-free firmware is here. Note that reflashing your own drive is fully legal in every reasonable jurisdiction, as you do not remove any copy protection schemes by doing so.
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Australian firmware might fix it - it's not legal in Australia to region lock hardware so Apply kit is region free.
The argument is that's against free trade - so in violation of competition law
Not sure how or where you might do this but it's a place to start looking
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Just use VLC to play the movies?
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Originally Posted by AKcrab 
Just use VLC to play the movies?
That doesn't work on all DVD-players any more - the one in my iMac G5, for instance, enforces the region code even if reading in data mode. The result is stuttering. I think all Matsushita dirves are like that, and Apple has kept using those drives.
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If you have access to a Windows box, you could plug your drive in and use DISCInfo to do a vendor reset. You get 5 user changes, a vendor reset gives you 5 more user changes. Drive firmware only allows 4 vendor resets. After that, you have to flash the drive to region-free, or replace the drive.
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Originally Posted by P
That doesn't work on all DVD-players any more - the one in my iMac G5, for instance, enforces the region code even if reading in data mode. The result is stuttering. I think all Matsushita dirves are like that, and Apple has kept using those drives.
No problems on my 24" C2C iMac with OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5630A.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
No problems on my 24" C2C iMac with OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5630A.
-t
It's probably only Matsushita who does that, but it's like that box of chocolate: you never know what you're gonna get* in a Mac, as Apple buys parts from several suppliers. The same model iMac might have Optiarc if manufactured in March and Matsushita in the April batch.
* With apologies to Forrest Gump.
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