How do i play NTSC dvds on macpro?

Shanez · Shanez #1 (**permalink**)

05-15-2011, 10:00 AM

Hey guys,

I just got some blue ray dvds from amazon but i did not realize they were in different region, ntsc! and i cant seem to get them to work on my mac pro, i put them in and they keep getting spit back out, it does not even read the discs, how do i get this to work? can i change regions somehow, i think you can but i read somewhere you can only do this a few times before it gets locked? and its apparently dodgy to do this to your system

Anyway i dont know what to do so if you could help me id appreciate it

Thanks
Shane

cwa107 · cwa107 #2 (**permalink**)

05-15-2011, 10:10 AM

Are they Blu-Ray Discs or DVDs? If the former, you won't have any luck because there is no player software that cane decode Blu-Ray on the Mac at this time (nor do any Macs come equipped with a Blu-Ray player).

If they're DVDs (big difference), then you can just use the free VLC Media Player to play them.

Shanez · Shanez #3 (**permalink**)

05-15-2011, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by cwa107

Are they Blu-Ray Discs or DVDs? If the former, you won't have any luck because there is no player software that cane decode Blu-Ray on the Mac at this time (nor do any Macs come equipped with a Blu-Ray player).

If they're DVDs (big difference), then you can just use the free VLC Media Player to play them.

They are blue ray discs

cwa107 · cwa107 #4 (**permalink**)

05-15-2011, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Shanez

They are blue ray discs

Sorry, Macs don't play commercial Blu-Ray discs. Your only option would be to get a Blu-Ray drive and boot the machine under Windows and then get a player that can play them - of course you will likely run into region-encoding issues with that as well.

Shanez · Shanez #5 (**permalink**)

05-15-2011, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwa107

Sorry, Macs don't play commercial Blu-Ray discs. Your only option would be to get a Blu-Ray drive and boot the machine under Windows and then get a player that can play them - of course you will likely run into region-encoding issues with that as well.

hmm, does the new ps3 play these, even if they are different regions?

cwa107 · cwa107 #6 (**permalink**)

05-15-2011, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Shanez

hmm, does the new ps3 play these, even if they are different regions?

That I don't know, but given it's a Sony DRM-loving device, I wouldn't imagine it does.

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Shanez #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jul 20, 2008 Posts: 117	05-15-2011, 10:00 AM Hey guys, I just got some blue ray dvds from amazon but i did not realize they were in different region, ntsc! and i cant seem to get them to work on my mac pro, i put them in and they keep getting spit back out, it does not even read the discs, how do i get this to work? can i change regions somehow, i think you can but i read somewhere you can only do this a few times before it gets locked? and its apparently dodgy to do this to your system Anyway i dont know what to do so if you could help me id appreciate it Thanks Shane
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