Superdrive hack

Fine with me, the 3rd party ones are a lot less expensive. Name required. Mail will not be published required. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. Mar 17, - 45 Comments. Enjoy this tip? Subscribe to our newsletter! Thank you! You have successfully joined our subscriber list. Tracy says:. April 21, at am. Neil F says:. April 19, at am. Phil Cooper says:. March 23, at am. Somchy says:.

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Pierre says:. January 2, at am. Freddan says:. October 25, at pm. Mel Stotyn says:. September 1, at pm. September 2, at pm. The owners of the DVD technology won't allow it. I have not seen any firmware hacks that can render any recent SuperDrive as region free, and since such hack is illegal in some countries we couldn't discuss it here even if one existed. If you want a region-free drive, you'll have to look for an external drive that is or can be made region free.

Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. Jan 7, PM in response to varjak paw In response to varjak paw Thanks for the reply, I work for a film studio in the UK and as I view films from all over the world for potential release in the UK its important that I'm able to view said films on the go on my laptop. Bypassing a region code certainly isn't illegal in the UK, its down to individual DVD distributors to region code thier product not hardware manufacturers.

I've read elsewhere that VLC will bypass the region card when a disc is started in it, can anyone confirm this? Message was edited by: drunkenmonkeykev. Reply Helpful 1 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. User profile for user: Captain America Captain America. Jan 26, PM in response to drunkenmonkeykev In response to drunkenmonkeykev Do you have plastic Macbook?

User profile for user: Nathan Jones2 Nathan Jones2. This is handy as it is the only way I can watch DVD's legally in my home country the drive is locked for a region the other side of the world - in effect forcing me to use 'illegal' region DVD's.

I've been doing some research and region locking is apparently illegal, or at least seen as an extremely dubious and anti competitive practice in many countries. Message was edited by: Host. Feb 20, AM in response to Captain America In response to Captain America Hi Sorry for the late reply, yes, it is the very last release version of the plastic 2.

Feb 20, AM in response to drunkenmonkeykev In response to drunkenmonkeykev drunkenmonkeykev wrote: Thanks for the reply, I work for a film studio in the UK and as I view films from all over the world for potential release in the UK its important that I'm able to view said films on the go on my laptop.

Perhaps this isn't the ideal solution, but you could simply purchase an external DVD drive and set the region. There are some external bus-powered versions out there that are fairly small. Of course you'll need several if you want to have access to all regions without changing the codes. However, the DVD drives on most new Macs have region lockout on the hardware level, so VLC will not necessarily be able to play discs from multiple regions.

If you play a lot of DVDs from different regions your best option is to buy a USB or Firewire external drive that you can set to the region you require. User profile for user: J J Apr 20, PM in response to drunkenmonkeykev In response to drunkenmonkeykev I am indeed having an identical problem. I think this is totally unacceptable and something for which Apple should reimburse users the price of having replacement Region 1 or which ever region you happen to reside in drives installed or replace them for free.

User profile for user: Lyssa Lyssa. And what would you have them do? I tested this [Updated] on Lion Just let me know your experience in the comments! BTW: the boot options plist and how it works is described in the Darwin man pages. Hi, and thanks for your assistance. I have no idea of what to do other than try to follow the instructions you gave above, so please bear with me and explain any step extremely simply. I have an i-mac running The sudo plutil I even tried the hex editing deal.

One offset has I took a chance and changed the other that was previously Just that when I go back into Terminal to check. It has no change. Please help. I have a mac mini btw. It was working until high Sierra update. I have only one Mac left that could update to High Sierra and has a built-in optical drive.

This was a lifesaver for many of us up through Sierra—thanks! Apple has apparently done something else to the OS to disable these drives.