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How do you keep a region change after you select it in system preferences?

I can not change the region in My System Preference, I select the region and it keeps reverting to USA.

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), Unable to retain region when select

Posted on Mar 30, 2014 1:19 PM

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Mar 30, 2014 3:13 PM in response to DPA Potter

Is this for playback of video DVDs?


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

How do you keep a region change after you select it in system preferences?

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