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Apple Notebook Region Free DVD Drive

The Apple notebook (Powerbook & iBook) DVD drive is NOT region free. Meaning, you cannot play DVD of different regions.

You are allowed to make only five changes to the DVD drive region. After that, the region is permanent.

We can make the DVD drive become region free by upgrading the DVD drive firmware. Please note that it is an unofficial firmware. Installing unofficial firmware may void your Apple warranty.

Download Apple DVD region free firmware

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This entry was posted on Monday, October 31st, 2005 at 4:42 pm and is filed under Hardware, Tips & Tricks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Apple Notebook Region Free DVD Drive”

  1. Lelonger Says:
    November 6th, 2005 at 9:24 pm

    Man that sucks!

    Whoever heard of region locking nowadays. Probably 2 years ago … maybe.

  2. Chris Says:
    November 11th, 2005 at 8:32 pm

    Hi,

    What you can do, is to disable the “When you insert a video dvd” in the System Preferences, then intall “VLC” player. I’ve got no problem playing diffrent regions and won’t get the notification message anymore.

    Hope this helps,
    Chris

  3. yoshikuni Says:
    April 25th, 2006 at 6:58 pm

    hi,

    well, “VLC” player used to work on osx but not anymore with osx tiger. i have ibook g4 and tried to play a foreign dvd on “VLC”, but i’ve got the notification message and couldn’t watch the dvd. i think a dvd player on newer ibook has a protection for region locking.

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