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  2. DVD region code - Wikipedia

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    DVD regions. DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. [1] 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.

  3. Regional lockout - Wikipedia

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    The DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and UMD media formats all support the use of region coding; DVDs use eight region codes (Region 7 is reserved for future use; Region 8 is used for "international venues", such as airplanes and cruise ships), and Blu-ray Discs use three region codes corresponding to different areas of the world. Most Blu-rays, however, are ...

  4. List of Compact Disc and DVD copy protection schemes

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    DVD-Cops See CD-Cops in previous section. DVD region code Restricts region where media can be played by matching region number with configuration flag in DVD players. LaserLock Includes hidden directory on the CD containing corrupted data which will cause errors while being copied. SafeDisc (version 4) See SafeDisc (versions 1-5) in previous ...

  5. DVD-Video - Wikipedia

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    A normal DVD player can only play region-coded discs designated for the player's own particular region. However, a code-free or region-free DVD player is capable of playing DVDs from any of the six regions around the world. The CSS license prohibits manufacturing of DVD players that are not set to a single region by default. While the same ...

  6. Regional Playback Control - Wikipedia

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    RPC-1 and RPC-2 are designations applied to firmware for DVD drives. Older DVD drives use RPC-1 firmware, which allows DVDs from any region to play. Newer drives use RPC-2 firmware, which enforces DVD region coding at the hardware level. See DVD region code#Computer DVD drives for further information.

  7. File:Blu-ray-regions with key.svg - Wikipedia

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    * Region A/1 (yellow): Americas (excluding Greenland), East Asia (excluding mainland China), Southeast Asia, Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) * Region B/2 (green): Europe (including Greenland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, but excluding Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova), West Asia (including Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan ...

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  9. Talk:DVD region code - Wikipedia

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    Generally, no - they have both a Blu-ray region and a DVD region. For example, a UK PS3 will only play region 2/region free DVDs and region B/region free/all region Blu-rays. Of course, like with standard DVD players there are region-free players available (although I don't know how prevalent they are).