[X4U] DVD regions issue

[Allan Hise]

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Jan Melichar wrote:

> As part of some teaching material I am preparing I have to look
> through a wide range of films and it's most convenient to look at
> these via DVDs. Many (well some anyway) are only available as region
> 1 DVD which means a switch on my region 2 mac. The system provides
> for a small number of changes of regions which is not much use to me.
> Can anyone suggest a way round this short of getting a separate
> regions free DVD player?

VLC will play DVDs from any region and it is free, too. I use it all the
time to play region 2 discs on my ibook with is set to region 1.  Look for
it on macupdate or versiontracker or such.