How does a Blu-ray player handle DVD region codes?

[DisneyKrayzie]

Someone finally asked me a question I do not know the answer to, maybe someone can help me out here. How does a Blu-Ray player hande DVD region codes? Since the region codes for DVD's and BD's are differant I'm not sure how it would handle DVD's from other regions.

[rdodolak]

A blu-ray player produced for your country would handle dvd region coding the same as a dvd player produced for that same country.

For example, a blu-ray player manufactured for the US would have Region A coding for blu-ray and Region 1 coding for DVD.

However, a blu-ray player manufactured for Japan would have Region A coding for blu-ray (same as US) but Region 2 coding for DVD (different from US).

Here are a few images for your reference:

Blu-ray Region Coding


DVD Region Coding

[HiDefSushi]

Originally Posted by DisneyKrayzie

Someone finally asked me a question I do not know the answer to, maybe someone can help me out here. How does a Blu-Ray player hande DVD region codes? Since the region codes for DVD's and BD's are differant I'm not sure how it would handle DVD's from other regions.

There is no Region Free Firmware for PS3 yet. Which SUX!!!!

Hopefully soon!

[jw]

Whats up with that one country in South America thats region b, and everyone else is region a?

[Mermen79]

Originally Posted by jwbbud

Whats up with that one country in South America thats region b, and everyone else is region a?

It's more than likely that it's established all its broadcasting and media in the PAL format. Some of the countries in SA couldn't seem to decide.

[DisneyKrayzie]

Originally Posted by jwbbud

Whats up with that one country in South America thats region b, and everyone else is region a?

That is French Guiana, it is a region of France and actually part of the European Union, so it follows the format of Europe.

[DisneyKrayzie]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

A blu-ray player produced for your country would handle dvd region coding the same as a dvd player produced for that same country.

For example, a blu-ray player manufactured for the US would would have Region A coding for blu-ray and Region 1 coding for DVD.

However, a blu-ray player manufactured for Japan would have Region A coding for blu-ray (same as US) but Region 2 coding for DVD (different from US).

I assumed that you would still only be able to view DVD's that are from your region. But because there were differant regions for Blu-Ray I was not sure. Since a Blu-Ray disc from Japan or Korea will work in a US Blu-Ray player being that they are region A, it seams like it would also play DVD's from Japan or Korea even though they are differant regions.

[gordon cunningham]

i need to buy all my Blu-ray disks from French Guiana then

do they have amazon?