Do you have a Mac from the U.S.or other region but want to play DVDs from France or other countries on it? When I was still in the U.S. I could play French DVDs (zone 2) on my American (zone 1) Mac because I had a handy dandy decoder that one of my French friends gave me. It played DVDs from France wonderfully. Then, after an update it no longer worked. Grrrrr! There’s some ridiculous law about the having different regions for different countries. All of our Macs are from the U.S. and Macs only let you change the region on the built-in DVD player four times. That is not very cool.
Luckily, what IS cool is this hack that shows you how you can get your Mac to play DVDs from various zones. Here it is: How to Play Multiple Region DVDs on Your Mac
[related: VLC]
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Do you know if there is anything comparable for PCs?
Comment by PretzelBug 05.18.06 @ 9:23 am
to the pc users, get a mac!
actually, i think vlc works for pc so check that out. the thing with mac is unless you use this hack the mac automatically opens its dvd player once you put in the dvd. i don’t know if that’s true for pc’s, and if it isn’t, you can simply use vlc as your player.
haha b, not sticking it to the man, but “working with available resources.”
Comment by ptinfrance 05.19.06 @ 1:31 amThank you! I have been searching for this for so long… (Ok, I lied. Wishing. Not much with the searching, actually. Call me lazy.)
I linked you on my site, and posted about it as well. Yippee! Thanks so much!
Comment by Ronica 05.20.06 @ 6:58 pmyou’re welcome! yay, mac people!!! (sorry pc people but macs rule)
Comment by ptinfrance 05.21.06 @ 6:51 amLeave a comment
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