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My New DVD is ALL Regions =D YAY~!
Carol Haynes:
Tell me the make and model number of the DVD player and I'll see what I can find out.
Some models you just use a strange sequence of key presses on the remote control, others you need to buy or hire a special remote control to do it. I have done this now on 6 or 7 DVD player/recorders and never had a problem. FWIW next time you buy one buy it region free - there are loads of sellers out there!
WRT the Mac drive not sure what you can do about that but on Windows boxes there are loads of software tools that fake the multi region approach. I used to use one that worked well called DVDidle but I don't think it is available any more (the same people that make DVDFab produced it). You could try http://www.dvdfab.com/passkey-lite.htm (which is free) which will probably work with older DVDs or buy http://www.dvdfab.com/passkey-for-dvd.htm which should work with all DVDs (but costs $40).
I'm sure there are cheaper alternatives for Windows but I'm not sure what. A well respected application is http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html but that costs 49 Euros.
PS: A much cheaper alternative for Windows is to buy a second DVD drive - make the main drive set to your region and set the second drive set to region 1 (which is what most people want). You could probably do the same with the Mac if it is a tower type computer - or use an external USB or Firewire based DVD drive for the other region and use it on the Mac and windows.
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