[G4] Optical Drives

[Ronald Steinke]

On 11 August, 2006, at 4:51:24, probalecause at aol.com wrote:

> My Sawtooth running OS 10.3.9 and has a DVD/CD drive fails to play  
> most DVDs. Any idea as to what may be the trouble?

I agree with Harry Freeman. Commercial (and some home-made) DVDs are  
encoded with a region code and your Mac DVD reader/player is designed  
to allow you to view different region coded discs and change the  
default region code FIVE times and then you will have to select the  
default region setting for the reader to use for all future viewings.

If your region setting has been defaulted to a region that your discs  
are not from, the discs will not be viewable until you perform a  
reset of the region code. This CAN be done, but I am not completely  
sure of the method and hesitate to advise you to do anything that  
could bollux up the machine further.

Perhaps another list reader has that region change method knowledge?