[G4] Optical Drives

[Fabian Fang]

On Aug 12, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Ronald Steinke wrote:

> 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?

When in doubt, consult the Apple Support website:

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60183>