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And all the while that little drive light flickers and you know you’re stuffed), the fact that the ‘super drive isn’t actually as super as we would like is the merest, trifling inconvenience. I understand the frustrations of my esteemed fellow posters who in spite of making a not inconsiderable expense still cannot enjoy that single unit answer to their multi-media and workstation needs but, I assure you, in comparison to the years of torture, frustration and, not so very uncommonly, real grief when I lost something more than important, but dear to me (removable drive *:\ is not formatted, would you like windows to format it now? What? NO! FOR PITY’S SAKE NOOOoooo! IT’S MY BACK UP DRIVE!!!!!! Eject Eject oh please dear Lord let it Eject. Eye wateringly expensive but I’m tired of driving around in a clapped out Ford, I want a Bentley now. I’ll spend a hundred or so bucks on an external DVD drive and stick it in the side pocket of the snazzy new MacBag to go with the iPod (in it’s snazzy incase, incase of what I wonder?).
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Through the combined wonders of the internet and a charge card, one new MacBook Pro 17* plus all the necessary extras is on its way to me.
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When I saw my colleague’s shiny new MacBook Pro, running MS Office software seamlessly and on our network, without hint of glitch or tremor and soooo fast (my laptop has 2.66Ghz and a gig of ram, it’ll fry an egg quickly but try working on graphics files) I thought that’s it.
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Spyware? Several costly versions of spyware cleaning and I am satisfied can’t be that, Then, the final teaser, better lose a few hours downloading the latest windows and office security patches, after all, I did it a whole seven days ago so my system must be full of holes by now, only to get, ‘windows authentication has detirmined that you may have been the victim of software piracy….please give us yer credit card details and uncle Bill will try and make it better’. I’m not some sleazy politician who likes to spend his lunchtimes getting spanked in Soho. Yesteday was the last ‘effing time a machine will tell me, ‘oh, i’m so sorry, I have just suffered an irrecoverable error and I am going to have to shut the programme down, you know, the one with all that data you just pumped in, and, guess what, auto recover won’t work because when I reboot, I won’t start for a while and when I do, it won’t be there and later on you’ll find I have corrupted a few random files as well. I started with a Commodore 64 and went the windows 3 and onwards to XP route and am finally, utterly, totally and irretrievably p****d off with Windows. OK, I am disappointed to read that the new MacBook Pro will not let me watch all my DVD’s (I live in Angola, work all up and down the West African coast and am currently sitting next to Lake Albert in Uganda so you can imagine I have quite a variety of regions) but…… Technorati Tags: mac, macbook pro, os x, apple, dvd, region free, vlc, streaming Yes there is a heavy dose of sarcasm in the whole Windows to the rescue thing for those reading with a sense of humour failure :)
Multi-Region DVD playback on a MacBook Pro, solved :) On my Mac, also fired up VLC (using one of the universal binary nightly beta builds, which do seem to be generally very stable), select “Open Network…” and click OK. So I popped the DVD in on my Windows PC, fired up VLC and ticked that little “Stream Output” button, select to stream over UDP and entered the IP address of the Mac to stream to: Unless, Windows to the rescue!!! VLC works like a dream playing any region DVD’s on Windows and has a really smart network streaming system built into it. So… no way forward with multi-region DVD playing :(
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With VLC for Mac out of the picture, the only possible solution was looking like a warranty voiding firmware hack which may or may not even exist (it is hard to tell if the ones that are being referred to on the internet are for older machines), certainly not worth the risk of a dead, out of warranty DVD drive.
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In these days of £20 multi-region DVD players this is not really on, and it is especially disappointing since on older PowerBooks VLC multi-region playback seemed to work so it means that additional time and effort is still being put into this pointless exercise to keep the movie companies happy. So I was dissapointed to see that there seems to be no way to easily make the MacBook Pro’s DVD drive region free which unfortunately renders about half of the DVD’s I own completely useless. This article is out of date but I have posted an updated summary so please continue the conversation over here.
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