What does “DVD Region” mean?
Discs are also coded for different regions of the world. The Movie Industry has divided the global DVD marketplace into six regional zones. This regional coding system was introduced to combat piracy. It also allows film distributors to stagger theatrical and DVD movie releases across the world’s various markets. Thus a film can be released for sale on DVD in one territory only, with access to the disc restricted via regional coding so that this DVD cannot be viewed on a DVD player from another differently coded territory where the film may not have even been released in cinemas yet. Under regional coding, all DVD movies are marked with a regional code that prevents one region’s (DVD’s) disks being played on another region’s DVD player. The world’s six DVD regions are: Region 1: United States and it’s Territories Region 2: Japan, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East Region 3: Southeast Asia and East Asia Region 4: Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central and South America R
