can someone tell me why on earth apple restricts their dvd drives to only one goddamned region? i really don't understand. many of us buy legitimate dvds from overseas which have different regions and i don't see the good in not allowing us to play them. all the computers i've had before never had such a restriction.
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Anonymous2006-06-25 7:46
Protip: Windows does it too
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Anonymous2006-06-25 9:14
no, it doesn't. windows at least aren't bitches who tell us what we can and cannot listen to/watch.
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Anonymous2006-06-25 9:19
Yeah, Windows does. Every time I've installed DVD playing software on Windows it asked you to set a region and you can only change it 5 times blah blah...
If you're on OS X try using VLC before you run out of region changes.
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Anonymous2006-06-25 9:22
protip: use linux
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Anonymous2006-06-25 9:27
>>4
But at least on the PC platform, you have the option of getting a DVD drive that isn't region restricted or can be flashed to remove the restriction. On the Mac, you're scewed.
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Anonymous2006-06-25 9:32
>>6
Yeah, the older drives could be overridden by software but it's harder today. On the Power Mac you can at least flash the drive to be region free. At worst you can buy an flashed external.
I second this Linux motion kekekeke...
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Anonymous2006-06-25 9:50
>>4
you must have an ultra new windows or something, my other computer has xp and windvd, and it could play anything
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Anonymous2006-06-25 10:04
It was back in the XP SP1 days using WinDVD...
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ANon2006-06-25 12:23
Sure if you have an old RPC1 DVd drive the WinDVD region free method worked, but now all new DVD drives are RPC2 and thus region coded in the firmware aka need to flash drive to unlock.
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Anonymous2006-06-25 17:40
i got an hp dvd installed on windows xp, and never had any region problems, i guess thats up to the driver program you using
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Anonymous2006-06-25 23:08
Don't Macs have any software you can run in the background that cracks region encoding and/or copy protection schemes?
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Anonymous2006-06-26 5:40
>>10
please tell me more about these flash drives :(
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Anonymous2006-06-26 6:46
>>10
Use DVD-X-Player, which performs realtime DeCSS. (Illegal in countries that suck.)
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J3ph42!dXldY3fJbY2006-06-26 9:08
WHat about getting a USB/1394 case, and sticking a Sony/LiteOn drive with hacked firmware in it? (Never tried this on a Mac myself)
Don't worry though, think about it this way: since they do not seem to want you to buy legitimate movies and play them, just pirate them. Piracy is all DRMers and faggots should get.
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Anonymous2006-06-26 11:11
>>17
i think they want us to watch legitimate movies, but only the big name blockbuster releases. apple does not want people to watch foreign movies, to broaden our horizons. i bet hollywood paid apple to enforce this region crap.. GUAHROHAKJGLKSFJHG.
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Anonymous2006-06-26 11:25
Can't you just rip the VOB using MacTheRipper and remove the region encoding?
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Anonymous2006-06-26 12:47
>>19
possibly, but that's a lotta work just to watch sth when ur bored. it's still tiresome
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Anonymous2006-06-26 12:52
It's only dependent on the speed of the drive and the size of the VOB you have to rip.
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Anonymous2006-06-26 14:20
>>17
Not to mention now that you own the movie in question, a lawsuit over piracy in negligible.
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Anonymous2006-06-26 14:34
winxp protip: get bittorrent client, leech Slysoft anyDVD.