[Ti] PAL on TiBook?

[Fred]

> From: "Trevor J. Hutley" <trevorhutley at consultant.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] PAL on TiBook?
> 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.


Use VLC and you do not need to flash your drive to region free.  Otherwise
you  can only change regions 5 times until it is locked on one region only,
unless you flash it.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

Cheers
Fred