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Region 10??

  • 24-01-2006 1:25pm
    #1
    blueband
    Registered Users Posts: 122 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    Anyone hear of a Region10?

    Was looking around DVD's on the web to buy and one was listed as Region 2 & Region4 which is common enough as Oz DVDs always seem to play on European players (I remember buying Shrek 1 or 2 at some stage that was both regions).

    However, when you select it the DVD is then listed as Region 10?

    Confused....:confused:


Comments

  • #2
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    isnt that the one for Airplanes?


  • #3
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    bombidol wrote:
    isnt that the one for Airplanes?
    That's Region 8, according to Wikipedia.


  • #4
    MickH503
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭MickH503


    blueband wrote:
    Hi all,

    Anyone hear of a Region10?

    Was looking around DVD's on the web to buy and one was listed as Region 2 & Region4 which is common enough as Oz DVDs always seem to play on European players (I remember buying Shrek 1 or 2 at some stage that was both regions).

    However, when you select it the DVD is then listed as Region 10?

    Confused....:confused:
    Found this from Google ... http://hometheater.about.com/cs/dvdlaserdisc/a/aaregioncodesa.htm

    DVD Region Code Designations

    The DVD world is divided into six major geographical regions, with two additional regions reserved for specialized use.

    To keep it simple, this means that DVD players and DVDs are labeled for operation on within a specific geographical region in the world. For example, the U.S. is in region 1. This means that all DVD players sold in the U.S. are made to region 1 specifications. As a result, region 1 players can only play region 1 discs. That's right, the DVDs themselves are encoded for a specific region. On the back of each DVD package, you will a find a region number (1 thru 6).

    The geographical regions are as follows:

    REGION 1 -- USA, Canada
    REGION 2 -- Japan, Europe, South Africa, Middle East, Greenland
    REGION 3 -- S.Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Parts of South East Asia
    REGION 4 -- Australia, New Zealand, Latin America (including Mexico)
    REGION 5 -- Eastern Europe, Russia, India, Africa
    REGION 6 -- China
    REGION 7 -- Reserved for Unspecified Special Use
    REGION 8 -- Resevered for Cruise Ships, Airlines, etc...
    REGION 0 or REGION ALL -- Discs are uncoded and can be played Worldwide, however, PAL discs must be played in a PAL-compatible unit and NTSC discs must be played in an NTSC-compatible unit.


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