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DVD region code. 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. This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players ...
Regional Playback Control. 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. Some RPC-2 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
For home video releases on formats other than DVD and Blu-ray, see List of other Doctor Who home video releases. This is a list of Doctor Who serials and episodes that have been released on DVD and Blu-ray. DVD Release Most Doctor Who DVDs have been released first in the United Kingdom with Region 2, and released later in Australia and New Zealand (Region 4) and in North America (Region 1 ...
The BBC, initially with 2 Entertain and then Abbey Home Media Group, produced a number of DVD box sets, featuring three separate DVD releases apiece. DVD Title. DVD Releases. Release Date. "The Collection". Series 1 - 24 episodes (3 DVD set): "Here Come the Octonauts". "To The Gups!" "Ready For Action".
v. t. e. The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) [9][10] is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind of digital data and has been widely used to store video programs (watched using DVD ...