Peter Udbjørg wrote:
I have just acquired a Powerbook G4/Tiger & played some DVDs on it. Out
of curiosity, I took a peek at the settings. And, indeed, like in
Panther and on iBooks, one is limited to five changes of regions.
First, this is stupid of Apple; home DVD players are region-free and do
not have such silly limitations, second, what will happen after the
last change? The player getting locked to the last changed region? And
what to do then? Pave & burn & re-install Tiger? Any suggestions?
Peter, Oslo, Norway
I don't know how it is in Norway, but here in the 'States, all home DVD
players are region locked to region 1 due to the film studios. It's a
big deal if a home player can be region locked.
As for the DVD changing only five times, that is not Apple, that is the
firmware of the DVD drive. It's the same way with machines running
windows. Again, blame the movie studios.
And yes, once you change the region for the fifth time, it's stuck on
that region. There are some firmware sites that have region free
firmware available for download, and/or utilities to reset the region
change count. Reinstalling the OS will not help at all.
Google for 'dvd drive region free' and you should find them.
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