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By: Apple is clueless about international people « Lance Wiggs

Apple is clueless about international people « Lance Wiggs — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:23:56 +0000

[...] those DVD regions. Apple uses DVD drives that are impossible to unlock – you get 5 shots at changing the region and [...]

By: Lance Wiggs

Lance Wiggs — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:01:37 +0000

yes, and it does not work. The Matsushita UJ-857 (amongst other Matsushita UJ-xxx models) has the region software in the firmware, and it has not yet been cracked. VLC cannot bypass the region encoding on these drives.
There is a French guy that used to crack DVD players, but it seems he is now otherwise employed.

By: barnaclebarnes

barnaclebarnes — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:49:19 +0000

Have you tried usin g VLC to play the DVD’s? This manages to bypass the region checking on my G5 without having to change the region.

VLC here – http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

And to rip the DVD’s – http://handbrake.m0k.org/