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Almost all drives which are less than about two years old, are RPC2-drives. You can flash the firmware to a RPC1 replacement if it is available, but note that this might be illegal in your country and voids the warranty of your drive. I'm in Spain, but half my DVDs have come from Asia or N. America...

If you have an old DVD drive, VLC will work for all your DVDs. If you have a RPC2 drive, VLC won't (whatever the OS). Thanks for your reply. I'm sorry, I don't know what an RPC2 drive is. Is this the type of DVD drive used on the new MacBook Pros? And if it is, is there any way to modify it, by fla...

Hello - I'm about to make the leap to the Mac world from Windows and purchase a MacBook Pro. The DVDs in my collection are from various regions, which hasn't been a problem using the DVD Region-free software available for Windows. I've read that this feature has been available on earlier Mac version...