New Mac Mini - Region Free Mod?

[wood0004]

I am considering ordering a Mac Mini from Apple's Hong Kong store which I presume will have DVD region flags set for 3 and 6 which will cover me in China where I am living now. When I moved here, I reflashed the firmware on my Dell business notebooks with a region free firmware. I am wondering if I will be able to make the mini DVD drive region free so I can play my HK and China DVD's as well as my US DVD's?


Also, I will be purchasing a new 15" MBP also from HK and will want to mod that DVD drive as well so hopefully I can get both answers here.

Thank you!

 

[no3tic888]

You can look here for all the relevant info:

http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php

 

[ncc1701d]

The SuperDrive in the macmini shouldn't be set to any particular region, but will ask you to set it once you insert a region DVD. Then you can change it up to 5 times before it is set for good.

I like the link 888 - I've been looking to deregion my drives

 

[no3tic888]

The Mac's DVD Player app makes you set the region. Otherwise you can use VLC to play DVDs from different regions.

http://www.videolan.org/