[X-Newbies] Re: Can't play DVDees.

[Alex]

On Apr 24, 2005, at 10:30, CarWesG at aol.com wrote:

> I have the same problem as Brian.  I get a lot of French DVDs from my 
> family in France and I can't watch them.  The DVD player from my G5 
> lets me change the region 5 times and that's it.  In the old system 
> (pre-system10) we could always throw away the preferences (of any 
> software) and start fresh again.  Is there a similar possibility?

No. Region codes are wired into the drive firmware. There some apps or 
firmware patches out there to get around this, but I shouldn't advise 
you to try -- IMHO, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle. Why not just buy a 
cheap DVD player and set its region to 2?


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