Why does Amazon.com have hardly any region-free BDs?

[The Lion King]

I've been trying for ages to buy some BDs off of Amazon.com but almost all of them are in Region 1 format. Ebay is my preferred choice for BDs, but it would be nice to actually be able to buy something of interest on Amazon for once. Anyone else annoyed by this?

[JasonR]

Maybe try a different region?

www.amazon.co.uk

It is the Distributor, not Amazon.

[owa]

...or amazon.co.jp or amazon.de or amazon.fr or xploited cinema or axel music or play.com.

Edit: The nice thing with Amazon is that you don't have to enter any of your info. If you have an account on amazon.com, it's used on the other sites. The Japan site will translate the page to English but on some of the others, you kind of need to know the prompts or use altavista to translate the text.

I've used Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, and Xploited Cinema (maybe Amazon.co.jp -- can't remember for sure on that one).

http://www.amazon.de/ (I had to use altavista to translate earlier tonight when ordering something from them -- although, that was for the e-mail that they sent. If you know the prompts for Amazon, you don't really need to understand the language to make it through the ordering process).

Should be an english version of the Japan site's blu-ray listing
http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_ss_...ywords=blu-ray

Xploited Cinema: http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/bl...31daebcb3d3c0b

Axel Music: http://www.axelmusic.dk/

Play.com: http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/6-/RegionHome.html

Use this site to check region codes: http://bluray.liesinc.net/

This site has a nice listing of the various movies available: http://www.releaselists.com/BLURAYInternational.html and includes a section listing movies that aren't available in the US (and links to them).

[The Lion King]

I don't think those sites are of any help. I'm Australian, so Region 1 BDs are of absolutely no use to me. They don't even have any straight Region 2 DVDs, only a few Region-less ones that don't interest me.

Edit: Okay, I'll try and use babelfish on the Japanese one. Thanks.

[JasonR]

Region: Region 2

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Day-After-To...608790&sr=1-18

amazon.co.uk is region 2

[owa]

Originally Posted by The Lion King

I don't think those sites are of any help. I'm Australian, so Region 1 BDs are of absolutely no use to me. They don't even have any straight Region 2 DVDs, only a few Region-less ones that don't interest me.

Edit: Okay, I'll try and use babelfish on the Japanese one. Thanks.

You may want to PM zyclone. I think he's in Australia and he's been helping me with various imports I was trying to track down.

[owa]

Originally Posted by The Lion King

I don't think those sites are of any help. I'm Australian, so Region 1 BDs are of absolutely no use to me. They don't even have any straight Region 2 DVDs, only a few Region-less ones that don't interest me.

Edit: Okay, I'll try and use babelfish on the Japanese one. Thanks.

Xploited Cinema has a bunch of the region free blu-rays (imports from all over). You should be able to order from the amazon.de or amazon.co.uk or amazon.fr since they should be in your region and even if they aren't you can still find region free blu-rays at them. Just use the region code site I listed earlier to verify the one you're looking for is region free. It'll also mention what country the blu-ray is released in.

Japan is actually in the same region as the US.

[stefanpaulmayer]

but you do realize that many of the BDs are actually codefree in the US, but only amazon.com doesn't state it on its site?

[david2189]

UK is region 2

also look for Warner titles on Amazon.com ive got many a bargain from there, for example v for vendetta which will be region free for 12 quid including delivery which would be atleast 18£ in the uk (darn rip off )

[jw]

Amazon.com market is primarily for the US/Canada
same way that Amazon.co.uk is for europe

[Seretur]

I live right next to your country, Lion King, and I buy only Region A Blu-rays, usually from Amazon.com.

However, over half of my Blu-rays are region-free.

Why? Because region information on Amazon is usually wrong.

You say it yourself, it says Region 1, and not Region A -- a dead giveaway. It's a DVD thing, not a Blu-ray thing. And it's wrong.

Use either the information on this site, in the Movies section, to see whether a title is region-coded or not; or go to http://bluray.liesinc.net/ to get the most thorough region-coding information.

So even as a Region B player owner, you'll be able to enjoy many, many US Blu-ray releases.

[The Lion King]

Originally Posted by Seretur

I live right next to your country, Lion King, and I buy only Region A Blu-rays, usually from Amazon.com.

However, over half of my Blu-rays are region-free.

Why? Because region information on Amazon is usually wrong.

You say it yourself, it says Region 1, and not Region A -- a dead giveaway. It's a DVD thing, not a Blu-ray thing. And it's wrong.

Use either the information on this site, in the Movies section, to see whether a title is region-coded or not; or go to http://bluray.liesinc.net/ to get the most thorough region-coding information.

So even as a Region B player owner, you'll be able to enjoy many, many US Blu-ray releases.

Awesome, thanks!

[easyrider]

Try this www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=50447

[Zyclone]

as others have said my aussie brother most blu ray titles are region free if you want to check the region status of a blu ray http://bluray.liesinc.net/ is the best resource.

[Macca78]

Originally Posted by easyrider

Try this www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=50447

Definately...there are heaps of discs on amazon that say they are region a only but work on australian players...this list is brilliant as it is 100% correct...a good resource for people wanting the reverse too - region b discs that will work in region a players.

[The Lion King]

Wow, thanks for those links guys.

[Scripture]

Originally Posted by Zyclone

as others have said my aussie brother most blu ray titles are region free if you want to check the region status of a blu ray http://bluray.liesinc.net/ is the best resource.

Yes, that's a great site. Good call.

[WickyWoo]

The other thing is that no one owes you region free anything. Why would Amazon stock region B titles on a region A site? And even if they did, they wouldbe MORE expensive because they'd be imports

[Grubert]

Originally Posted by The Lion King

I've been trying for ages to buy some BDs off of Amazon.com but almost all of them are in Region 1 format. Ebay is my preferred choice for BDs, but it would be nice to actually be able to buy something of interest on Amazon for once. Anyone else annoyed by this?

First, BD regions are not labeled by numbers like DVD, but rather letters.

Second, I buy very often from amazon.com. And most of their titles are region ABC. Not that amazon has any say in that - their region encoding or lack thereof is the same there and in dvdpacific or deepdiscount!

[Kirsty_Mc]

Originally Posted by stefanpaulmayer

but you do realize that many of the BDs are actually codefree in the US, but only amazon.com doesn't state it on its site?

Indeed that is the case. Amazon.com is truly awful at getting the region codes accurate. They even class BDs as regions 1, 2 etc... when in fact they are A, B &C. It's best to check elsewhere before you buy other than paramount and Warner (always region free... so far ).