In the UK, for instance, you would be in Region 2, while South Korea, which represents about 20% of my DVD collection, is Region 3. While this article assumes you live in the United States or Canada and have your DVD drive set to Region 1, the principals and solutions are the same regardless of your actual location and home DVD region. So with no further ado, here is a look at region coding and the Mac platform at the tail end of 2008. Here is a quick summary of ways to get around region coding, followed by some information on the prospects for newer Macs and my current preferred method that works well, provided you have the time and hard drive space. Also unchanged are the alternatives that may work for viewing foreign region DVDs on your out-of-region or region-locked Mac. In addition to a region-free drive, you still need the Region X utility, recently upgraded to version 1.6 and fully OS X 10.5 Leopard compatible for both PowerPC and Intel to reset OS X’s region change counter, which is separate from the region setting in your drive’s firmware. As always, the Mac specific section of remains the place to go to search for region-free firmware and flash utilities to make your Mac region-free. The Problemįirst off, the basics of the problem of watching DVDs from multiple regions on any computer, Mac or PC, remain the same, and the information in the previous articles remains valid, especially if you own an older Mac or a desktop tower that allows for the easy replacement of your optical drive.
As it’s been well over a year since my last look at the subject and the tools available to Mac users have changed a bit, I thought it was time for a brief update.
2008 – I’ve written on this topic a few times before, and those articles continue to draw extremely high hit-counts despite the constant advance of technology.
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