I ended up updating the firmware from http://www.rpc1.org. So now my drive is region free (macbook intel duo; used to have hbea version of firmware for the Matshita UJ-857).
hello, I am new to this forum and relatively new to VLC. I have a macbook intel core duo with os X 10.4.10. My computer is locked to Region 2 unfortunately (I didn't realize I had run out of changes). Since then I am not able to watch DVDs from zone 1 even with VLC. Is there a way I can rectify this...