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Region 0 DVD?
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: London, UK
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Aug 19, 2002, 11:32 AM
 
Anyone know what it is?

About a month ago I took a brief holiday and, like I usually do, took my PowerBook and a pile of DVDs so I'd have something to watch in the evening (I'm not gonna pay for a hotel room, then pay again for a movie!).

Anyway, shortly before I left I purchased a bunch of John Wayne movies on DVD, three movies on each for ten pounds - pretty good deal!

While I was perusing the box art, I noticed it clearly says 'REGION: 0'.

Is this some kind of universal DVD, playable in any region? Or does the 'REGION' text not refer to the DVD Region code (which, AFAIK, is mapped as 1-US, 2-UK, etc up to six).

Just curious - they played fine!

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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Aug 19, 2002, 04:12 PM
 
yeah, region 0 means it has no region coding. you can play region 0 discs anywhere.

just looking up some info on DVD regions, did you know there are 8 regions, not 6? one site i saw said region 7 is unused, while region 8 is for airlines and cruise ships...that's news to me!


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