Changing Region Drives

Very interesting - I've got the same exact problem!! One change left and trying to change from Region 1 back to 2.

Please help asap!

If you are stuck with a Mac that comes with a Matshita drive and are a user that travels between regions or has mutli-region discs it is always recommended to just add an external DVD drive to your system. Keep the internal set to one region and the external set to another.

If you are lucky to have a Tower or Mac with an easy access chassis you can simply replace your DVD drive with a better unit as new ones are quite inexpensive from your local PC shop.

There is light at the end of the tunnel, the next DVD standard has a lot of manufacturers dropping region lockouts. The insanity will be over soon, but we have to deal with it in the meantime.

If you have an older Matshita or most modern drives you can get RPC1 firmware to put on the drive (RPC2 is the version that is causing all the grief such as you are experiencing with your unit).

For the later option, visit this website and type in a name or model number of your drive as reported in System Profiler.

I have, unfortunately, and internal Matshita which is left at Region 1 USA and I have an external Nec 3520a I put in a firewire box that is firmware RPC1 region free because I need 3 region support to go between USA (1), UK (2), Denmark/Norway/Sweden (2), Australia (4) and New Zealand (4). I think the tard who thought this up should be shot.

Jan J.

you can also use VLC Media Player. It is freeware and plays DVDs from any region, no matter where the drive is set. It is available in the Mac OSX download area as well as other places.