I just purchased a DVD and it states that "Playback is prohibited by area limitations." Is there anything I can do?
The DVD I purchased says "playback prohibited by area limitations" is there anything that can be done?
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.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201705
Once you have set the region in DVD Player five times it cannot be changed. However see this also:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201705
Instead, use VLC to view videos from different regions: