What about DVD regions?
What about DVD Region codes?
DVD region codes identify a DVD’s compatibility with DVD players typically sold in a particular region market. It is a system developed to encode DVDs to prevent them to be played on Countries not intended to.
The only exception is Region “0″ (also called “region free”). Region “0″, is compatible with DVD players from any region. The majority of all current DVD titles play only in one specific region unless otherwise noted. DVDs sold for Europe are encoded for Region 2. These DVDs may not work on DVD players in other countries, unless they are “region free” players.
Region “1″ DVDs are intended for use with standard DVD players in North America (Canada and the USA). Region “1″ DVDs are usually presented in NTSC format, so it will also be required an NTSC-compatible television. “NTSC” is the standard picture format in North America, and differs from the “PAL” format adopted in Britain and Europe, having different synchronism pulses and frequencies. You should ensure that your TV is capable of reading the NTSC signal before purchasing Region “1″ DVDs (99% TV’s sold in North America are NTSC compatible).
Regional Coding Enhancement or RCE, has been added by some film studios (specifically Warner and Columbia) to selected Region “1″ DVDs, with the intention of preventing these discs from playing on some multi-region DVD players. Because of this, we are unable to guarantee that all Region “1″ discs will be compatible with all multi-region players.
The following is not a definitive list and is intended only as a guide.
Region “1″ – US, US Territories and Canada
American Samoa, Canada, Guam, Palau, Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Puerto Rico, Micronesia, United States, U.S. Virgin Islands
Region “2″ – UK, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Middle East
Albania, Andorra, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican City, Yemen, Yugoslavia
Region “3″ – Southeast and East Asia
Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
Region “4″ – Australia, New Zealand, Central and South America
Antigua, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Barbuda, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, New Guinea, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, Tobago, Uruguay Region “5″ – Former Soviet Union, Indian sub-continent, Africa, North Korea and Mongolia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, St. Helena, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Region “5″ – Please see Map above (Africa, Russia, India, etc.)
Region “6″ – China
China
Region “7″ – Reserved for future use
Region “8″ – International Territories (ships, planes, etc)
There are programs out there that decodes or “rips” the DVD regions and can make any DVD to region “0″ or no region. It requires that the DVD be read in one drive and written in another at the same as the program is decoding in the background. It requires two DVD, with at least on being able to write, but it can also be done with only the writer, using the hard disk as a buffer, but the process will be much slower and the needed space must be available in the hard disk, being from one to nine giga bytes.
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