DVD Region change on a Mac G4

[mickhphoto]

I had my mac G4 powerbook set to region 1 but tried to set drive region back to region 2 , it displays ERROR CODE 70001 and it ejects the disk...anyone help!!!

 

[duncdude]

DVD Player encountered a system error. Could not detect a valid media file (-70001)

... as far as I am aware the DVD drives only allow a few plays of films then they set themseves irreversibly to the region of the last disk played (maybe the 5th for example)


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[jimoblak]

You could always try to update the firmware for the drive, but you risk killing the drive entirely. There is a reason why DVD drives are limited to regions. consumers are not supposed to be jumping between regions.

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[drlex]

Region settings on drives are a pain and usually have both a hardware and a software element; the first being Region Playback Control (RPC) and on almost all Apples is RPC-2.

as jimoblak points out, there are some utilities to update the firmware (hence overcoming the hardware element), but IIRC, you need to have a mac that can boot into OS 9 to run the updater. I think xlr8yourmac.com have a link on their f.a.q. to the relevant sites

You can then use a utility like RegionX to deal with the software element.

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