Way off topic: DVD drives

[Andy Armstrong]

On 10 Sep 2006, at 14:33, Nic Gibson wrote:
> http://www.powerbook-fr.com/dossiers/dvd_region_free_en_article30.html
>
> might be of help.
>
> I used an ancestor of this (xvi's work) on my old powerbook and it  
> worked just fine. Haven't tried to do anything to the macbook pro  
> (you got to love insurance companies - kill the powerbook and get a  
> replacement macbook pro)

Thanks for that - that's more than I knew before. Unfortunately my PB  
has a UJ-835 which isn't supported.

I didn't think that VLC was able to work round the firmware region  
encoding but they imply it might so I'll give that a spin.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net