How to Play Different Region DVD Movies on Mac ?

Everybody knows that an error may occur when playing a DVD disc with a region code setting different than that of the drive. Now if you want to solve the problem and play your different region code DVDs on your computer, how to finish?
First, follow me to know some region code information:
DVD region codes is a DRM technique designed to allow motion picture studios to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and especially, price, according to the region. DVD video discs may be encoded with a region code restricting the area of the world in which they can be played. The commercial DVD player specification requires that a player to be sold in a given place not play discs encoded for a different region.
Discs without region coding are called "all region" or "region 0" discs. In addition, many DVD players can be modified to be region-free, allowing playback of all discs. There are six different regions on the DVD, while Blu-ray Disc only has three. Also, major DVD player manufacturer countries (Japan, United States etc.) all have different regions, which caused problems for many. This is fixed in Blu-ray, as Japan (and other East Asian countries) and the Americas all have the same region.

You can see the 6 different Regions information below:
region 1:  North America; U.S. territories; Bermuda
region2:  Europe; Western Asia; Kingdom of the Netherlands; Egypt, Japan, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland; British overseas territories, French overseas territories; Greenland
region 3:  East and Southeast Asia
region 4:  Oceania; Central and South America; Caribbean; Mexico
region 5:  Africa, Central and South Asia, Belarus, India, Mongolia, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine
region 6:  Mainland China


6 different Regions


Now here recommend 2 methods to play different regions DVD on your computer:
1. Change the region code setting of your computer.
You just have 5 chances to change the region code.
2. There is also an better method with using External Drive.
To use the External Hard Drive, you do not need changing the region codes, most important, you can backup your favorite DVD easily.

external optical driver

Just follow the easy 3 steps :
Step 1:  Prepare the External Optical Driver.
Hard drive is usually internal, however, as computer systems have evolved and different needs, threats, and circumstances have arisen, the additional external hard drive has become extremely popular.

Step 2:  Free Download DVD Copy Pro Program to Backup your different regions DVD.
DVD Copy Pro supports to backup DVD to DVD Folder, DVD Disc, ISO, and DVD Player Media. It especially supports External Hard Drive. You can know more about DVD Copy Pro for Mac

Step 3:  It will costs about 20 -30 minutes to Backup DVD5 disc, and 35- 45 minutes to backup DVD9.
You don’t need to be at the side of your computer during the whole copying process, you can go to sleep, listen to the music or read book.... All the backup things will become so easy !




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