DVD is the main reason the home theater experience has become popular, serving as a foundation for elevating both video and audio quality. However, DVD players and DVDs are labeled for use within specific geographical regions. The DVD world is divided into six major geographical regions, with two additional regions reserved for specialized use.
DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to the appropriate region.
This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will playback only DVDs encoded to their region (plus those without any region code). The American DVD Copy Control Association also requires that DVD player manufacturers incorporate the regional-playback control (RPC) system. However, region-free DVD players, which ignore region coding, are also commercially available, and many DVD players can be modified to be region-free, allowing playback of all discs.
DVDs may use one code, multiple codes (multi-region), every or no code (region free).
DVD regions are assigned as follows:
REGION 0 --Any region/region-free
REGION 1 --The United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda
REGION 2 --Europe (without Belarus and Ukraine), Greenland, the Middle
East, Egypt, Lesotho, South Africa, Japan, and French Guiana
REGION 3 --Southeast Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau
REGION 4 --Latin America (without French Guiana and
Puerto Rico), the Caribbean, and Oceania
REGION 5 --Africa (without Egypt, Lesotho, and South Africa), Russia, Belarus,
Ukraine, Central Asia, South Asia, Mongolia, and North Korea
REGION 6 --Mainland China
REGION 7 --MPAA-related DVDs and "media copies" of pre-releases in Asia
REGION 8 --International venues such as aircraft, cruise ships, and spacecraft.
REGION ALL --These region discs have all 1-8 flags set, allowing the disc to be played in any location, on any player.
Region free DVD Players, unlike software hacks, region free players have modified internal hardware that’s specially designed and tested to allow the playback of discs from any and all regions. Instead of scouring the internet for region code hacks that are constantly changing and can vary from title to title with no guarantee of consistency, an internally modified player handles discs from all regions with ease and without any additional work on your part.
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