This was OK for a one-time-only situation, but based on the warning reproduced below (highlighted in red) I'd say anyone who uses a laptop computer DVD player needs to be aware of how dangerous it could be to do this.
(click on image to make it a little bigger if you need to)What this says to me is that the DVD drive itself has firmware that registers region code changes and will lock the drive when the change counter reaches zero.
If you need to do something out of the ordinary with a disc - like sync a separate subtitle file with it (one that you created yourself or downloaded from a sub site like this one) - then you should really take the time to rip the files (or re-capture the movie) from the disc and re-author in a program like DVD Studio Pro with the subtitle file added into the package. That's all potentially illegal, but what can you do? Sometimes you want to show a movie that's in another language to people who only speak English. If you do all that then you'll have a disc that can play in a standalone player or your laptop.
This is one of those "there's no free lunch" things. Or maybe it's one of those DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) things.
PS. I don't know why, but it still freaks me out a little bit when people watch DVDs on their laptops. Call me old fashioned, but in my day we watched DVDs on a TV set (LOL).
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