DVD drive region

DVD drive region is a setting that limits DVD-ROM optical drives to playing back video DVDs that are coded to a specific geographical region.
==Regions==
*0: Playable in all regions, or "region free" (cannot be set by regular consumer software).How to Make Your Mac Region Free for DVD Viewing by Andrew Fishkin, Low End Mac. 2006-06-23.
*1: Canada, the United States, and their respective territories.
*2: Europe, Western Asia, Northern Africa, South Africa, and Japan.
*3: Southeast Asia.
*4: Mexico, Central and South America, and the South Pacific.
*5: Africa, North and South Asia.
*6: Mainland China.
===Modifying the region setting===
DVD Player for Mac OS X and macOS contains functionality to change this region setting when a video DVD from a different region is accessed by a drive connected to a Mac computer. The drive region can only be changed up to 5 times before it is "locked", after which a factory reset by the manufacturer would be required. This is a feature built directly into the firmware of optical drives supporting DVD playback.How to Watch DVDs from Different Regions on Your Mac by Andrew Fishkin, Low End Mac. 2008-12-04.
==References==
==External links==
*Change your DVD drive region in DVD Player on Mac at Apple Support
* at Wikipedia
===Articles===
*Play any region-coded DVD by mlnoone at Mac OS X Hints (2009-03-02)
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