Region coding in Australia?

[aussiepete]

just wondering if any can tell me if bluray movies are the same format in australia as os as they are still fairly new in aus any fairly dear to buy here as ps3 is still $1000:00 here thanks who ever can help.

[Kousakuya]

1000.00?

Wow, you might as well import from America.

[aussiepete]

Originally Posted by Kousakuya

1000.00?

Wow, you might as well import from America.

one thousand dollars you get three bluray movies with it wow

[aussiepete]

just wondering i have just bought ps3 in australia if i purchase blu ray movies from os are they formated the same as i have had dvds from os before and cant play them on dvd player. as they are still fairy new here and quite pricey about $40 to $50 each thanks any help would be good

[Merlins]

Originally Posted by aussiepete

just wondering i have just bought ps3 in australia if i purchase blu ray movies from os are they formated the same as i have had dvds from os before and cant play them on dvd player. as they are still fairy new here and quite pricey about $40 to $50 each thanks any help would be good

Some Blu-ray movies have region codings. Australia and Europe share the same region coding on the players (Region B). America and Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and some other Asian countries have Region A on their players.

Most movies are however region free. You can find list of region free titles on this site:

http://bluray.liesinc.net/

Or this site:

http://www.allaboutbluray.co.uk

[Xerious]

then again, it is $1000 AUS... which although not $1000 US, it's close (852.57)

[ground chuck]

ouch buy one off amazon(us) site.

[Blue]

Please do not import the PS3 from overseas well the US or any other region A country anyway.
Blu-ray has 3 regions look up wikipedia (Blu-ray) but Oz is region B, the same as the UK and most of Europe, NZ and a few other countries. The American continent is Region A along with Japan and most of SE Asia. Fox ALWAYS region encodes their disc's so DO not import Fox from the US. With the others it's random what is region encoded and what is not. Warner NEVER region encodes so all their titles are safe. Sony claims they only region encode new theatrical releases, but I would do my homework first. Any Paramount titles that are still available are also region free.

As far as this NTSC / PAL thing it doesn't exist for Blu-ray. There are a few sub-standards within Blu-ray but they are all interchangeable.

PS3 games have no region encoding, however the PS2 games ARE still region encoded and the PS3 will not play an incompatible PS2 region game. PM me if you have specific questions. There are a few sites that list the movies and region. The short answer is the format is the same - some movies are just locked up with region encoding. If you have a HD monitor you will be very very happy with the PS3 - for watching movies anyway.

[Merlins]

I would say the opposite thing. Do import a PS3 from US to get a region A-player. Most movies are region free and even more so in countries that belong to Region B. Fox have many region-free titles in Europe and Australia for example. It looks like Fox recently have switch policy and almost only release region free discs in Europe and Australia.

The only disadvantage to import a Playstation 3 is that the DVD-region is locked to region 1 instead of region free or region 4 for Australia.

Both Sony and Disney are using the policy to only region-code day-and-dates in USA but both studios have some older releases that are region coded so check region coding first to be sure. Sony have also said that all releases in Europe and Australia will be region free.

All titles from America, Japan, Korea and South-east Asia will play if you have a Region A-player.
Almost all titles from Europe and Australia will also play if you have a Region A-player because almost all titles are region free.