Latin America (except French Guiana and Puerto Rico), Caribbean (except French West Indies), and Oceania (except French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, and Hawaii)Īfrica (except Egypt, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa, Mayotte and Réunion), Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Central Asia, South Asia, Mongolia, and North Korea Southeast Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau Puerto Rico), Canada, and BermudaĮurope (except Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and CIS), Greenland, British Overseas Territories, Overseas France, Turkey, Middle East, Egypt, Tunisia, Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa, and Japan These discs have all region-1-through-8 flags set, allowing the discs to be played in all regions. Region codes and countries DVD region codes and geographic scope ĭVDs may use one code, multiple codes (multi-region), or all codes (region free). However, region-free DVD players, which ignore region coding, are also commercially available, and many DVD players can be modified to be region-free, allowing playback of all discs. The American DVD Copy Control Association also requires that DVD player manufacturers incorporate the regional-playback control (RPC) system. This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back only DVDs encoded to their region (plus those without any region code). It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to the appropriate region. JSTOR ( November 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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