I came across the helpful article in the Popular Mechanics about DVD regions encryption and how to change them. It does become a problem since we all love to play movies which have been brought from other countries.

Usually Laptop DVD Burner allows you to change your DVD region settings five times, and the sixth attempt will lock this settings forever.

Fortunately, there are clever programmers who have created software solutions that circumvent disc regions entirely, thus turning your notebook into a portable multiregional DVD player.

Windows OS users have the most options vs the Mac OS. One of the best is probably Remote Selector - a free software utility that interacts with your DVD-playing program, allowing it to play DVDs from any region.

Follow the link below for the article that extensively describes how to deal with Macs region settings.

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