On 20 Jul 2008, at 20:17, Read Weaver wrote: > Anyone know if the optical drive on a TiBook would play PAL (i.e., > non-US format) DVDs? Or know of a way to figure it out without a PAL > disk at hand? My Ti-500 was stolen in 2003, so I am working from memory: it was a US- origin (MacMall) Ti-book, I was living in Geneva at the time, and it used to play DVD / VCD from every region of the world. I had to 'upgrade' the firmware to make it region-free. T.