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Global region codes identify DVDs and Blu-ray discs that are compatible with the
players typically sold in that region.
The following are the different regions and their corresponding numerical
equivalent:
Standard DVDs
Region 1: U.S., U.S. Territories, Canada, and Bermuda
Region 2: Japan, Europe, South Africa, and the Middle East, including Egypt
Region 3: Southeast Asia, East Asia, including Hong Kong
Region 4: Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central America, South
America, and the Caribbean
Region 5: Eastern Europe, Baltic States, Russia, Central and South Asia, Indian
subcontinent, Africa, North Korea, and Mongolia
Region 6: China
Blu-ray Discs
Region A/1: North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea,
South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
Region B/2: Europe, Greenland, French territories, Middle East, Africa, Australia
and New Zealand
Region C/3: India, Nepal, Mainland China, Russia, Central and South Asia
Note: Most of the DVDs and Blu-ray discs sold by Amazon.com are only encoded
for Region 1 or Region A. These titles only play in one region unless noted
otherwise.
Normally, blu ray patent company didn't allow to support all single region
B/2 and region C/3 blu ray discs due to the patent issue.
The root cause I think is: if the movies were first released in the US, and it didn't
start release in the EU,if US can see it in a region B/2(Europe) movies, then, it
will be harmful to the publisher of the movie, it seems that the EU movies will be
wide pressed in the EU country before publishing. They can't earn money then.
