Understanding different Regions

[OkoPeeKee]

I did some searching but was unable to come up with some information on what the different regions mean. Thanks for any help.

[aygie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Region_codes

Voila

http://bluray.liesinc.net/

and a list of the region free titles.

[Deciazulado]

Blu-ray regions break down into this:

Region A: America, Japan, Corea, South East Asia
Region B: Grøenland, Europa, Africa, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand
Region C: China, India, Russia, and remaining Asia

This map shows it even better:








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On the other hand DVD regions are divided in numerical regions, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0




But at least regions 0, 2, 3, and 4 have DVDs released both in NTSC standards and in PAL standards so you could subdivide those regions into:

Region 0 NTSC
Region 0 PAL

Region 2 NTSC
Region 2 PAL

Region 3 NTSC
Region 3 PAL

Region 4 NTSC
Region 4 PAL

[OkoPeeKee]

Originally Posted by Aygie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Region_codes

Voila

http://bluray.liesinc.net/

and a list of the region free titles.

This is good stuff and I thank you. But I still don't understand what region free means, region locked, and then there is region abc. I assume region ABC is the same as region free?

[Deciazulado]

Region free and Region 0 mean it plays in all regions, region locked means it only plays in players of that region, and region ABC means it plays in regions ABC