WHAT ARE REGION FREE (aka CODEFREE) DVD Players?
After a hard day at work, one of the favorite preoccupations of our times is to insert a DVD in the player, get hold of a drink and a few munchies, and let the stress built through the day melt away in front of the latest flick or an old, sentimental hit. DVDs are an affordable medium that capture good picture and sound quality and can be enjoyed from the comfort of one’s home, so DVD players are a significant entertainment asset in the present times. Movies today are released worldwide and the money raked in from the theaters in each country is considerable, so Hollywood studios have done their best to see that the DVD of a movie does not reach a country before the movie itself has hit the theaters. To this end, they have imposed a coding technique, a digital flag on the disc that informs the DVD player about its place of origin, and to which region it belongs. DVD regions consist of six different areas around the world: The first region is the entire USA, the second combines Europe a
