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How to play different region DVD movies on Mac


When you want to make a DVD copy for Mac, maybe everyone knows that an error occurs when playing a DVD disc with a region code setting different than that of the drive. What we can do to solve the problem? Now let's first know some information about region code. DVD region codes is 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. Most DVD discs have their own region codes. The commercial DVD player specification requires that a player to be sold in a given place not play discs encoded for a different region.

There are six different regions on the DVD, while Blu-ray disc only has three. When you are making a DVD copy for Mac, you can refer to the 6 different regions information below: region 1: North America, U.S. territories; Bermuda region 2: Europe; Western Asia; Kingdom of the Netherlands; Egypt; Japan; South Africa; Switzerland; British overseas territories; French overseas territories; Greenland region 3: East and Southeast Asia region4: 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.

    Now here recommend 2 methods to play different regions DVD on your computer:One is to change the region code setting of your computer, but the disadvantage is that you only have five chances to change the region code. There is another better method, which is to use External Drive. This will save much trouble to make a DVD copy for Mac. With this drive, you needn't change the region code, and can backup your favorite DVD easily. There are only three steps. First, prepare the External Optical Driver. Then free download DVD Copy Pro program to backup your different regions DVD. It will cost about 20-30 minutes to backup DVD-5 disc, and 35-45 minutes to backup DVD-9. During the process of DVD copying for Mac, you just don't need to do anything and can go to sleep. With the External Drive, all the backup things will become so easy.



Updated : 2023-08-11.