Sorry I forgot about that.
ODDE is not region free, RGH is region free.
That being said it is not so bad- sure there are a few Japanese shmups you miss out on (and adventure/graphic novels if you actually speak Japanese) and there are a few nice European RPGs and similar such games you might have to wait a year or so to get stateside as well as a handful of odd things like sports games for sports only popular within a given region. Other than that most things come out stateside and in Europe at roughly the same time (at worst two or three weeks and with scene releases that still usually means before street dates)
It is not to say I would not spit in the face of the ones that think region locking is cool and implement it in consoles and it is far from effectively unnoticeable. To decide what it is worth to you think of games you might like and fire them into http://www.abgx.net/filename/?ch=6 as it will usually tell you what releases are compatible with what regions (and give a good idea of wait times).
Other methods- assuming we are sticking with the no burning discs thing other than those handful of little things like PIRS DLC there is nothing unless you want to get a developer 360 (rare, expensive and somewhat cumbersome and as such not worth it unless you actually have a good reason to get one).
i am going to buy a modded xbox360 slim.. no idea what modchip is in there.. the seller can't tell lol... i just want to be able to load the isos from HDD and play DLCs... my question is whether all modchips can do that?
the seller told me it's region free... so i am pretty sure it's RGH now... so this means no online for me .. but if i play with an original disc, will i still get banned? (i am reading you can still get banned with ODDE?)