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Region Code
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) divided the world into 6 regions, and
gave every region a region code for locking and unlocking D
playback.
Please
Region codes and the countries or areas represented by region codes are as follows:
Region 1: America, Canada, East-Pacific Inlands;
Region 2: Japan, West Europe, North Europe, Egypt, South Africa, Middle East;
Region 3:
Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea,
Thailand, indonesia, etc.;
Region 4: Australia, New Zealand, Central South America, South Pacific Inlands;
Region 5: Russia, Mongolia, Indian Peninsula, Middle Asia, East Europe, North
Korea, North Africa, North-west Asia etc.;
Region 6: China mainland.
Appendix: Region code of D
If you insert a disc into the disc slot and REGION ERROR is displayed
he car
ystem
not play the disc
the
car
system and the
disc do not match
.
as the code of the
, t
multi-media s
can
. The reason is that
region codes
of the
multi-media
used
each other
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Video
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impose this restriction.
has motivated the
Basically, a coded D
player can play only the discs if its region code is the
same
D
player. Otherwise, it cannot play the disc.
note that only the D
discs and D
players produced by
the 8 biggest film-making companies of America
The D
discs and D
players not produced by the 8 biggest film making
companies of America are not restricted by the rule of region code. Generally, they
are called Free Region Code or Full Region Code.
The problems caused by area code inconsistency
production of
unlocked version D
players and recodable D
players .
South-east Asian countries include
The 8 biggest film making companies of America are as follows:
1. WarnerBros;
2. Columbia;
3. 20thCenturyFOX;
4. Paramount;
5. Universal;
6. UA(UnitedArtist);
7. MGM(MetroDogwynMayer);
8. WaltDisney
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