Together, these two will cause Region Switch instead of the Apple DVD Player to launch each time a new DVD is inserted into the drive. The drive is RPC-2 drive with 4 remaining vendor resets, 4 remaining region switches, and is currently set at Region 1.
The example below displays the readout for a DVD-ROM drive in one of the lab Macs. They are needed to find an appropriate Firmware update should the user decide to reconfigure an RPC-2 drive. The Manufacturer ID, Model Number, and Firmware Version Number are important pieces of information. There are four applications in the 'ToolKit' DVDInfo 2.0.3, Region Switch 1.0.3, and DVDReset 1.0b5 which can be download at Mac DVD Resource Downloads Page (link dead) and DVDRegion 1.5 which can be found at .ĭVDinfo 2.0.3 - This application analyzes the installed DVD drive and displays the following information: Out of the many freeware applications available on the Internet designed specifically for 'Region Free' DVD viewing, one collection appeared to be the most well-thought-out, best documented, most well received, and widely distributed of them all, XVI Software's 'Region ToolKit'. Third Party Utilities In researching the possibility of having Region Free DVD playback in the lab Macs, a thorough evaluation of a few DVD region related tools and/or utilities was done.
