Due to the strict law, you are not able to play different region DVD on your computer. Every DVD player (that includes the one in your computer) is sold being able to play only discs with the same region as the country it was sold in. That includes Macs too, sort of. On a new Mac, the DVD drive is automatically locked to the DVD region code that is first used. From then on, this can only be changed four more times.
You pretty much have two choices — either find the DVD region code that you'll be using the most and set it to that one (since the four times are going to be used up sooner or later) — or 'flash' your drive to make the DVD player in different regions, which goes with the risk of destroying the drive. Below are tips to play different region DVD on Mac (macOS sierra, EL Capitan, Yosemite and Mavericks included).
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Simple Steps to Play Different Region DVDs on Mac (Sierra included)
Step 1
When you insert a DVD with a different region with the one of your drive, you get the dialog pop up as image shown.
Step 2
If you click cancel at this point, the DVD will be ejected, so Cntl + Click on the DVD Player icon, hold down the Option/Alt key and then click Force Quit (you can set DVD player not to open when a DVD is inserted in System Preferences).
Step 3
Download and install VLC and open it, then select File > Open Disc.
Click on the Disc tab -> click on DVD -> select the device -> click OK (usually this is selected by default). The DVD will now play, and your region code will remain intact.
Click on the Disc tab -> click on DVD -> select the device -> click OK (usually this is selected by default). The DVD will now play, and your region code will remain intact.
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Part 1: How to Play DVD on MacBook Pro/MacBook Air/iMac without Hard Drive
To enable a successful playback, insert the DVD into the disc drive and the DVD player for Mac will automatically play the movie. But for newer MacBook Air/Pro, it may be a little bit tricky as there is no hard drive. Here we share two ways on how to watch DVD on Mac without DVD drive: external DVD drive or best DVD ripper for Mac.
Way 1: Buy an External Hard Drive
Since there is no built-in disc drive in your Mac, you can get an external DVD drive for DVD playback on Mac. Apple provides a USB SuperDrive at £65 that works on iMac, Mac mini, MacBook Pro with Retina Display or MacBook Air. If the Mac DVD hard drive not working for you, there are many other DVD drives available at cheap price. Then you can watch the DVD with a Mac DVD player as normal.
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Way 2: Rip DVDs to MP4, MOV, M4V etc
Taking an external disc drive, or the cumbersome DVD discs will increase the burden when you are in travel or on the fly. So there is another more convenient option for you: rip the DVDs and play movies on Mac computers on the go. There are many tools for this job, here we will recommend you MacX DVD Ripper Pro. It works on Mac (macOS Sierra) and Windows (10) to rip any homemade/protected movies to MOV, MP4, M4V, AVI etc for free playback on any QT, VLC, KMPlayer without region code limits or any other trouble. It's fast with no quality loss.
Notice: The DVD ripper developer only advocates using this self-contained Mac DVD ripper to rip and convert DVDs for legal personal use, instead of illegal reproduction or distribution of copyrighted content. Please obey your local DVD copyright law before doing it. DO NOT do harm to others' lawful rights and interests.