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Posted by Mick Jones (A) on July 05, 2002 at 17:43:32

In Reply to: DVD Regional coding posted by Les Lammers on July 04, 2002 at 10:47:10:

Region coding.

When the DVD standard was set, the DVD Committee, under pressure from the Hollywood studios to protect their precious staggered world film releases, agreed to split the globe into different areas for DVD releases.

9 DVD regions were created, which are:

Region 1 - North America and Canada;
Region 2 - UK, Europe, South Africa and Japan;
Region 3 - Southeast and East Asia, Hong Kong;
Region 4 - Australia and New Zealand, the Pacific and Central and South America;
Region 5 - Russia, India, Africa and some limited Asian countries;
Region 6 - China;
Region 7 - Not currently in use;
Region 8 - Special use eg. Aircraft and oil rigs;
Region 0 - Unrestricted.