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HELP! DVD drive in Mac not reading discs!
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<blockquote data-quote="Plexberry" data-source="post: 1618376" data-attributes="member: 284918"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>I have a mac tower. Great machine - I use it for work and it's brilliant.... but not something terrible and worrying has happened</p><p></p><p>The disc drive won't read DVD Video discs. It reads blank ones but not video discs with content!</p><p></p><p>It just comes up with a message saying "This computer cannot read this disc"</p><p></p><p>But if I put it in through an external drive it works.</p><p></p><p>2 major problems:</p><p></p><p>1) I work in the video industry and I use this drive all the time and it has to work! </p><p></p><p>2) The external drive isn't mine, I'm borrowing it just to look into the problem!</p><p></p><p>Can anyone help? I thought it might be a region change but at no point have I had a warning about changing a region and as all the films over the last week have been region 2 (PAL) then not sure why one region 1 (USA NTSC) would not only break it but also not offer a warning about changing region code - to which I would have said no! </p><p></p><p>I remember in the old days of being on PC it would say: Do you want to change the region code? You have X changes left to this drive.</p><p></p><p>Does Apple not have a similar thing to this? It's rare - very very rare - when Microsoft does something better and more user friendly!</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure where to check region settings as there isn't any under the DVD option in System Settings.</p><p></p><p>Any help would be so greatly appreciated!!!</p><p></p><p>I'm running Mavericks fully updated btw</p><p></p><p>Ta</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Plexberry, post: 1618376, member: 284918"] Hi I have a mac tower. Great machine - I use it for work and it's brilliant.... but not something terrible and worrying has happened The disc drive won't read DVD Video discs. It reads blank ones but not video discs with content! It just comes up with a message saying "This computer cannot read this disc" But if I put it in through an external drive it works. 2 major problems: 1) I work in the video industry and I use this drive all the time and it has to work! 2) The external drive isn't mine, I'm borrowing it just to look into the problem! Can anyone help? I thought it might be a region change but at no point have I had a warning about changing a region and as all the films over the last week have been region 2 (PAL) then not sure why one region 1 (USA NTSC) would not only break it but also not offer a warning about changing region code - to which I would have said no! I remember in the old days of being on PC it would say: Do you want to change the region code? You have X changes left to this drive. Does Apple not have a similar thing to this? It's rare - very very rare - when Microsoft does something better and more user friendly! I'm not sure where to check region settings as there isn't any under the DVD option in System Settings. Any help would be so greatly appreciated!!! I'm running Mavericks fully updated btw Ta [/QUOTE]
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