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Mac DVD player region set?
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No. You'll have to reset the region to 1 or 2 to play those discs again. On top of that, most DVD drives have a limited number of times the region can be set before the region becomes "locked."
Have you ever thought of setting the region to 0?
Have you ever thought of setting the region to 0?
never heard of region 0. but again, i dont want to set my region to anything if i dont have too.
please see here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/626250/
0 is the "all regions" setting i.e. no region restrictions - you cannot set it to that in any DVD drive that I've seen on a computer (not without a hack anyway)....
You can't set a drive to be region 0. Rather a disk encoded to region 0 means that drives set to any region can play the disk. In truth a disk without region encodings is "region 0".
There are drives that can be set to be "region free", but I have never heard of any computer drives that can do this.
There are drives that can be set to be "region free", but I have never heard of any computer drives that can do this.
Region 0, for both drives and disks, is synonymous with "region-free". All the region bits are set to 0, thus not limiting to any particular region.
Setting a drive to Region 0 usually involves a firmware flash-- which is not exactly a trivial procedure, in most cases is done using hacked firmware code, and if one bit is off then the drive can be rendered useless. I haven't seen any firmware flashes for Mac internal drives, but then again I'm not in the market for that kind of hardware mod.