MASHITA MAC DVD DRIVER

Bison February 9, at 7: I am glad to say that I have heard that Matshita have now stopped taking this approach — forums. Well, is your problem occuring with DVD movies? Thanks for the tip on getting Front Row to work, though. Discover New Mac Apps. The optical drive is on your left and is held in by threw screws. Firstly thanks for referencing to the Ben11 fix which I agree seems to be the biggest breakthrough so far.

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Today I tried playing a DVD movie for the first time. We've got another seven hours until we get to the hotel, and I am NOT stopping at another rest area! And here follow the main instructions. BIOS is sometimes called firmware because it is an integral part of the system hardware Please, read the ReadMe.

I will likely take it to an Apple technician to get it replaced next week. Maybe I should make the first disk I play a region free one?

I use VLC on Linux. And I go the extra mile to make that happen. A lens cleaner probably would not do anything for you, all optical drives have a finite life span and I believe yours has reached its limit P. Although I wouldn't recommend 'anyone' opening up their Macbook Pro 'Unibody' as there are obviously some costly mistakes to be made, Apple have managed to make their Unibody Macbook Pro's pleasantly easy mzshita work on for people that have a moderate knowledge of the insides of a computer in general.

It depends on the drive in your computer. Advertisements or commercial links. I set the firmware region to R2 when I bought it and that is all it will deal with. I dragged the lint free cloth, that I mwc for my camera lenses, from my camera bag and lightly dusted the drives optical lens. Just going by the definition of firmware in the wikipedia! Mac OS X Version Thank you for this blog — an any assistance. Track this discussion and email me when there are updates.

DVD region woes

Most Macs have region-encoded DVD drives, and you only get to change regions a few times before you get stuck with one region. I purchase asian dvds a great deal, and not all of them mahita region 1 or 0. These are thumpin' good cans Creaticity: Well, is your problem occuring with DVD movies?

I have had a similar one on my MacBook Pro. Good tools and don't rush.

It is of coursed not endorsed by anybody, in particular not Apple nor the drive manufacturer or anybody at rpc1. Simple flash utility archive. If I broke my computer, I would also be unable nac do my work, which would be problematic. I suspect doing what we did will work for most people in that case. The table below recapitulates every firmwares you can use with MatshitaFlasher:.

Region Free DVD on Mac’s | My Journey to Macintosh

It has a number of other nice features, like letting you skip previously-unskippable parts of DVDs Thanx to Ben11 for this article source forums.

See this link for more details: If you quit it, it will eject the DVD. At a Loss — yes the warnings are there because something can go wrong, and the consequences are tricky probably replacement of the drive. It's a "Basic Input Output System".