[Ti] PAL on TiBook?

[Read Weaver]

Unfortunately, my TiBook is older than that--it has the Combo Drive,  
not the Super Drive (Matshita CD-RW CW-8121). It sounds like VLC will  
work. (I've also seen that there's a firmware hack that should work,  
"AX21"--maybe I'll try that at some point.)

I'd like to know even though I don't have any non-US DVDs at the  
moment, because I'm deciding whether to buy a cheaper non-US version  
of an out-of-print DVD, or the more expensive US version.


On Jul 20, 2008, at 6:20 PM, James Herndon wrote:

> Read,
>
> Trevor's memory was accurate. In 2004 a member of this group  
> provided a web address (http://superdrive.cynikal.net/) from which  
> the user could download patches able to update the firmware in  
> UJ-815 and UJ-816 superdrives released before April 2004. The  
> instructions were somewhat elaborate but the superdrives were  
> rendered region-free. PAL format was not specifically mentioned,  
> but apparently those disks played also.
>
> Jim Herndon
>
> On Sunday, July 20, 20083:43 PM, at 3:43 PM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley  
> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
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