Is the disc drive you can buy multi regional?

From appearances of questions and answers including the store link below, suggested by users of the current model Apple USB Superdrive, there (still) are country codes - 5 of them - similiar to those in a player, and when you use a disc from one code area and then change, you can only change through all 5 once. You may be stuck with the last country code that was selected, if you got that far, based on the origination of the discs you sought to play or use in most DVD players.

Apple Sales Support (US)

http://store.apple.com/us/help/contact

For other country/language (from US/english) options, see how to change:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/open/country_selector

This is rather consistent across several brands, but there may be some third-party models that allow the user to erase or start over with these same codes once again, but I see no evidence of this regarding the model noted here. However there are several comments and questions via the Store page. Or you could search to see via google, and enter any brand in such a search to see what comes up. A few third party ones are so cheap as to consider them disposable. But if you need a superdrive equivalent replacement, this may be it.

• Apple USB SuperDrive - Apple Store (US)

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD564ZM/A/apple-usb-superdrive?

Hopefully this helps somewhat.

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

Are you asking about the external SuperDrive Apple sells? Understand first that it does not support all Mac models and none of the pre-2006 iMacs this forum covers. Here are the Mac computers the SuperDrive supports:

Compatible with the following computers:

• MacBook Pro with Retina display
• MacBook Air
• iMac (late 2012) and later
• Mac mini (late 2009) and later
• Mac Pro (late 2013)

As for region issues, you may have to contact Apple directly because I cannot find the extended specs for this product on the Apple site (We are all end-users here like you, not Apple agents).

It is not the disk drive that is or is not multi regional. That is governed by the firmware on your Mac, which uses DVD Player to play DVDs from any superdrive.

Region encoding is the mechanism that enables motion picture studios to control the worldwide release of their movies. It is required by the DVD Forum (http://www.dvdforum.org/forum.shtml) in all commercial hardware DVD players. Every DVD-Video disc contains one byte of data representing a region code, which limits where the disc can be played.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2397

Once you have set the region in DVD Player five times it cannot be changed.

Instead, use VLC to view videos from different regions:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html