#Region free blu ray player code

Many 'multi-region' DVD players defeated regional lockout and RCE by automatically identifying and matching a disc's region code or allowing the user to manually select a particular region. RCE also caused a few problems with genuine region 1 players. RCE could be defeated by briefly playing a 'normal' region 1 disc, and then inserting the RCE protected region 1 disc, which would now play.

If it cannot play the disc, then it tries another region until one is found that works. The scheme was fundamentally flawed, as a region-free player tries to play a disc using the last region that worked with the previously inserted disc. This played the aforementioned video loop of a map, which was impossible to escape from, as the user controls were disabled. The intention was that when the disc was played in a non-region 1 player, the player would default to playing the material for its native region. But it also contained a short video loop of a map of the world showing the regions, which was coded as region 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. The disc contained the main program material region coded as region 1. The scheme was deployed on only a handful of discs. Region-code enhanced, also known as just 'RCE' or 'REA', was a retroactive attempt to prevent the playing of one region's discs in another region, even if the disc was played in a region-free player. Most DVDs in India combine the region 2, region 4, and region 5 codes, or are region 0. There are also two Blu-ray regions used: Mainland China uses region C, but Hong Kong and Macau use region A.

In China, two DVD region codes are used: Mainland China uses region 6, but Hong Kong and Macau use region 3. North Korea and South Korea have different DVD region codes (North Korea: region 5, South Korea: region 3), but use the same Blu-ray region code (region A). Some are region 1 only after 2006 to coincide with Blu-Ray region A.Įgypt, Eswatini, Lesotho, and South Africa are in DVD region 2, while all other African countries are in region 5, but all African countries are in the same Blu-ray region code (region B). Most DVDs sold in Mexico and the rest of Latin America carry both region 1 and 4 codes. Overseas territories of the United Kingdom and France (both in region 2) often have other regions (4 or 5, depending on geographical situation) than their homelands. 'D1' are the UK only releases 'D2' and 'D3' are not sold in the UK and Ireland 'D4' are distributed throughout Europe. European region 2 DVDs may be sub-coded 'D1' to 'D4'. This apparent solution was popular in the early days of the DVD format, but studios quickly responded by adjusting discs to refuse to play in such machines by implementing a system known as 'Regional Coding Enhancement' (RCE).ĭVDs sold in the Baltic states use both region 2 and 5 codes, having previously been in region 5 (due to their history as part of the USSR) but EU single market law concerning the free movement of goods caused a switch to region 2. The term 'Region 0' also describes the DVD players designed or modified to incorporate Regions 1–8, thereby providing compatibility with most discs, regardless of region. So-called 'Region 0' and 'ALL' discs are meant to be playable worldwide. For example, a DVD designated Region 2/4 is suitable for playback in Europe, Latin America, Oceania, and any other Region 2 or Region 4 area. These region discs have all 1 through 8 flags set, allowing the disc to be played in any location, on any playerĪny combination of regions can be applied to a single disc. International venues such as aircraft, cruise ships, and spacecraft MPAA-related DVDs and 'media copies' of pre-releases in Asia

Latin America (except French Guiana and Puerto Rico), Caribbean (except French West Indies), and Oceania (except French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, and Hawaii)Īfrica (except Egypt, Tunisia, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa, Mayotte and Réunion), Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Central Asia, South Asia, Mongolia, and North KoreaĪrgentinian in Chilean Spanish / Hispanoamérica (except dubs from Argentinian Spanish, Chilean Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Venezuelan Spanish, Peruvian Spanish, Colombian Spanish, Uruguayan Spanish and Ecuadorian Spanish) Southeast Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau Puerto Rico), Canada, and BermudaĮurope (without Belarus, Ukraine and Russia), Greenland, British Overseas Territories, Overseas France, Turkey, Middle East, Egypt, Tunisia, Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa, and Japan Region codes and countries DVD region codes and geographic scope

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