Frequently Asked Questions
What are DVD regions?
DVDs have the ability to encode an option which specifies the region in the world it was designed to work in. This makes it posible for movie companies to control when DVDs are released in different parts of the world. The movie companies have divided the world up into zones, these zones are described in the table below.
DVD regions table
| Region |
Countries |
| 0 |
No Region Coding |
| 1 |
United States of America, Canada |
| 2 |
Europe, including France, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Japan and South Africa |
| 3 |
Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo and Indonesia |
| 4 |
Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America |
| 5 |
India, Africa, Russia and former USSR countries |
| 6 |
Peoples Republic of China |
| 7 |
Unused |
| 8 |
Airlines/Cruise Ships |
| 9 |
Expansion (often used as region free) |
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