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My DVD drive is unfortunately not region free so it seems I am stuck. Will keep on checking the web for solutions. Somewhere along the way it should happen or I will breakdown and get an external region free drive.

Thanks for checking, have learned a bit.

Thanks for the info. Will consider the risk. Charles

Thanks for the information. I can find a hack to upgrade firmware but have a number of warnings that I might fry my drive and definitely will void the warranty. So will avoid it for now. My surround sound system can handle multi-region, just is not portable so no region 1 when I travel. If you have ...

I read on one site (http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php) that VLC helps bypass the region code issue for macs with region coded dvd players. I still have 3 tries on my machine so am not yet stuck. Based on the info on the site I set VLC to be the default player and stuck in a Zone 1 Dvd (my machine is ...