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Originally Posted by Giaguara  Hi Tiggr,
A close friend of mine had a firmware hack on his 17" PowerBook to enable region free DVD... it worked otherwise perfect, but would prevent the superdrive to burn any discs after. I don't remember which hardware hack it was but I would probably follow the optical drive functionality for a while after to make sure it still works otherwise perfect.
(Did VLC ever move the option to see region free by the way?) |
Ouch! Reading this got me worried, so I tried to burn a DVD-RW. Fortunately it worked just like before :-)
If possible, could you try to check with your friend what kind of modification he did and post the results here?
It might have been something completely different from firmware updating.
As for VLC. From what I've heard, the bypassing of region-checking is done in software, which probably demands a lot of processing power. If I recall correctly there were also some problems with Intel based Macs or something. Can't remember the details, but a web-search will probably yield several results.
The bottom line with VLC as far as I remember is that it doesn't work flawlessly in bypassing regions.
And personally I don't care much for it's "geeky" user-interface. Most of us bought Macs because we want to try and avoid that sort of thing, or we could have used Windows or Linux
