- Blu-ray Master Free DVD Player for Windows and Mac. Blu-ray Master Free Blu-ray Player is.
- Now that you know how the region codes function, let us come to the more important part of the article ie. How to make your blue ray player region free. Part 2: Hacking off your BR player You will not be able to hack off all makes and models of DVD players.
If your drive is set to Region #1, which includes Canada, the United States, and U.S. Territories, you cannot watch a DVD from another region such as Europe or Japan until you change the code. Insert the CDs or DVDs into the optical drive on your Mac computer. A dialog box will open, prompting you to select a region for your DVD drive.
Playing and watching DVD movies on your computer is great. However, if the DVD disc has a region code that doesn't match where you live or where you buy your computer, you will fail to play the DVD on your computer.
So if you want to enjoy DVD movies with different DVD region codes, you need to change the region on your computer first. Changing DVD drive region is very easy. Just remember that you can only change the region for five times. After the fifth time, the DVD drive region will be locked to the region you last chose permanently.
Follow the guide to unlock DVD regions in Windows (Windows 8 compatible) and Mac.
How to change DVD region on a Windows (Windows 8 compatible) PC
1. Open 'My Computer' and right click on the DVD drive icon. Choose 'Properties' from the drop down menu.
2. Select the 'Hardware' tab and choose the DVD drive from the disk drives list. Then click 'Properties'.
3. Go to 'DVD Region' tab and choose the geographic area you want. Then click 'OK' to finish the DVD region changing.
How to unlock DVD region on Macintosh
How To Make Mac Dvd Player Region Free Download
1. Insert a disc into your Mac's DVD drive.
2. Set the region code for your Mac following the window the prompts you to choose DVD region code.
Other way to play and watch DVD movies with different DVD region codes
Best Region Free Dvd Players
Since the DVD region can be changed for only five times and then the DVD region will be locked permanently, many people are looking for better ways to play and watch DVD movies with different DVD region codes. Here are two easy ways:
1. Copy and back up your DVD to a region-free DVD with a DVD copy software and a blank DVD disc. Aimersoft DVD Copy will help you copy and backup DVD movies to DVD disc with 1:1 quality. The copied DVD is region-free and you can freely watch it on your computer. For Mac users, there is DVD Backup for Mac provided.
2. Rip DVD to videos for playback on computer or portable devices. Aimersoft DVD Ripper can help you crack DVD protection and convert DVD to any popular video and audio formats for playback on iPhone, iPad, iPod, Zen, Archos, etc. For Mac users, please turn to DVD Ripper for Mac.
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Making your DVD-ROM drive region-free is probably the hardest thing you'll have to do, in order to make your PC-DVD system region-free.
Not all DVD-ROM drives can be made region-free, so don't be alarmed if you can't make your DVD-ROM drive region-free (there may be other ways to playback DVD movies in other regions). But if you can make your drive region-free, then you should, since it will save you a lot of trouble.
To make DVD-ROM drives region-free, you'll have to use a region-free patched firmware to replace the current firmware in your DVD-ROM drive. Please remember that firmwares are the very important piece of software that controls how your DVD-ROM drive operates, and that firmware designed for one drive will almost never work on a firmware designed for another drive (unless the drives share the same basic design, eg. some Aopen and some Pioneer drives). Also, updating the firmware can be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing, as a bad firmware flash can permanently ruin your drive (not to mention void your warrantee at the same time).
For the lastest region free firmwares and tools, please refer to The Firmware Page. Each firmware will have different uploading/flashing instructions, so please read the included documentations very carefully.
After you have applied the region-free firmware, you should use the instructions outlined on this page, to see if your DVD-ROM drive is now region-free or not (ie. whether the firmware has worked, or not). You should also let Windows re-install and re-detect your DVD-ROM drivers and also re-install your software DVD player (more instructions below).
If your DVD-ROM drive is not listed on either of these pages, or is listed as having an RPC-2 (region-locking) firmware only, then you may want to try to rip the DVD to your hard-drive, strip out the region information in the process (to make the ripped movie region-free), and then playback the movie on your hard-drive.
So to sum up, this is what you have to do :
- Locate a region-free firmware for your DVD-ROM drive :
Click here to visit The Firmware Page
- If a region-free firmware is available for your drive, apply it :
- After you flash your drive with the new region-free firmware, make sure that it has worked by detecting the region status of your drive.
- If the firmware hasn't worked, try again. If it has worked, you'll now need to let Windows re-install your DVD-ROM drivers (not always needed). You can do this by Click on the 'Start' button -> 'Settings' -> 'Control Panel' -> 'System' -> 'Device Manager' -> 'CDROM' -> delete/remove the item associated with your DVD-ROM drive. Restart your computer (Windows will now automatically re-detect your DVD-ROM drive - you may need your Windows setup files/CD).
- You may also want to re-install your software DVD player.
- If there is no region-free firmware for your drive, then you may want to 'Rip the Entire DVD' and 'Strip out the region code' while ripping
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