What region DVDs can 40gb PS3s play?

[The Lion King]

Do they only play region 4 DVDs?

[Azyiu]

They should all play the regional dvds that they belong to. Where did you get your 40Gb from? Region 4 should be Oceania and South America, correct? In that case, yeah, I think you have an Aussie version 40Gb model?

Mine is the US version, and only plays region 1 dvds.

[MOONPHASE]

only if the dvd has region encodes from other countries besides the area you live in then its playable in any ps3 just like a standard dvd player but however with blu-ray the region encoding is completely different

[syncguy]

blu-ray regions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc

A Americas; East and Southeast Asia.
B Africa, Europe, Oceania; Middle East; French territories; Greenland.
C Central and South Asia; Mongolia, Russia, and People's Republic of China.

DVD regions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

0 Informal term meaning "worldwide". Region 0 is not an official setting; discs that bear the region 0 symbol either have no flag set or have region 1–6 flags set.
1 Bermuda, Canada, United States and U.S. territories
2 European Union, Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Faroe Islands, French overseas territories, Georgia, Greenland, Guernsey, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Isle of Man, Israel, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Oman, Qatar, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Africa,Sweden, Swaziland, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City State, Yemen
3 Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea, Taiwan
4 Australia, New Zealand, Caribbean, Central America, Oceania, Jamaica, Mexico, South America (except French Guiana)
5 African countries not explicitly included in other regions, Indian subcontinent, countries included in the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, North Korea
6 People's Republic of China (exclude Macau, Taiwan)
7 Reserved for future use (found in use on protected screener copies of MPAA-related DVDs and "media copies" of pre-releases in Asia)
8 International venues such as aircraft, cruise ships, etc.[1]
ALL Region ALL discs have all 8 flags set, allowing the disc to be played in any locale on any player.

[WriteSimply]

There is another catch: TV system.

US PS3 can't play region 0/All DVDs that are encoded in PAL. Asian PS3s can play region 3/All in either NTSC and PAL.


fuad

[Psx0005]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

There is another catch: TV system.

US PS3 can't play region 0/All DVDs that are encoded in PAL. Asian PS3s can play region 3/All in either NTSC and PAL.


fuad

Glad I have my PC running AnyDVD in the background to handle the non-US region coded DVDs that may also be PAL-formatted...PC monitors aren't restricted like regular consumer TV's in regards to NTSC or PAL thankfully