Region Free Blu-ray Player Uk

[Cherie Trojak]

OurRegion Free Blu-ray & DVD players allow you to play DVDs and Blu-ray Discs from any region in the world. While all of our players are compatible with regions 0 through 8 on DVD, some of our Blu-ray Players only come standard with Region A Blu-ray Disc compatibility (Regions B and C are always available as an upgrade). All models will play discs in any format including Pal/NTSC/Secam and many of our Region Free Blu-ray Players can actually convert any format to Pal/NTSC/Secam output, allowing you to connect your player to any TV in the world without the need for an external video converter.

If you are planning to use a Multi Region Blu-Ray DVD player in the USA you need to consider a few things before you purchase. Region coding for Blu-ray discs is divided between the world in 3 regions which are A, B, and C. In addition to the regional coding, there are Pal and NTSC TV output systems. If you have a TV in the United States, chances are that TV only supports the NTSC TV system. This means if you want to play back a Pal DVD disc from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, etc., you will need a DVD player that has a video converter built in or you will need to buy an external video converter. We have packages with all of our players that do not convert so you can purchase the player with the video converter. We also sell many DVD players now that have a video converter built in. If you buy one of these you will not need anything besides the player to play Pal or NTSC discs on an NTSC TV in North America. If your TV supports both Pal and NTSC then you can play any of these discs on your TV without a video converter. If your TV is the Pal or Secam standard in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, etc. then you will not need a video converter. Most of the time you will be able to play standard and/or Blu-ray DVD movies from the USA and/or overseas with just one of our Multi region Blu-ray players. However, TV's from the USA may not support the resolution HDMI input from a foreign disc, in which case you will need to purchase a video converter.

Regions for standard Blu-ray discs may be encoded with a region code, intended to restrict the area of the world in which they can be played, similar to DVD region codes. Blu-ray players sold in a certain region should only be able to play discs encoded for that region. The purpose of this system is to allow motion picture studios to control the various aspects of a release (including content, date, and, in particular, price) according to the region. Discs may also be produced without region coding, so they can be played on all devices

My S6700 player plays other Region A blu-ray discs perfectly well, but I'm having trouble with a particular disc. When I attempt to play this Region A version of High Noon, the player presents a screen to me with the message 'Invalid Region'. I've checked, and the software on the player is up to date, so that can't be the issue.

Thanks very much for getting back to me and for the link to that page. The player I have ( =cm_sw_r_cp_api_T0OgzbSVT0CNM) can play Region A, B or C blu-rays and this one is Region A. As I mentioned, it plays other Region A discs with no problems. Further down the blu-ray.com page, it says "Note: This is a Region-A "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free player in order to access its content." I have one of those players, so it should play. All rather confusing!

I spoke to one of my contacts within Sony today and he suggested that you contact the retailer you purchased it from as apparently Sony dont generally do multi-region bluray players and therefore this would have been modified. Unfortunately I do not know what else to suggest or how to help you on this.

I have only just joined the community and therefore have only just seen this question. You may already have the answer, but (if only for the benefit of any others reading), there are two things to be aware of:

1: The majority of USA (region A) BluRay discs are not, in fact, region coded (or are coded with more than one region). That means they will play on an unmodified Region B machine. The "other region A discs" to which you refer may well be like this. That would explain why they play properly.

2: The ICOS modification to make a player multi-region does NOT (as regards BluRay) allow automatic playback of any disc without intervention from the user. Where you encounter a disc which is region "locked" (i.e. coded for one region only) you HAVE to set the player up to act as if from this region. Instructions as to how to do this for your particular player/modification should be supplied, but typically it requires you to eject the disc and use one of the four colour buttons on the remote to set up the region. And note that once done, you may have to change it again when you load e.g. a region B (only) disc.

My Blu-ray player BDP-S1000ES is a multi-region player. But I now get an Re: 'Invalid Region' message when I try to play a Region B disc and cannot any longer change the region using my BD RMT-B106A remote control.

Multi region free Blu-ray players open up the entire world of DVD and Blu-ray discs to you. At Bombay Electronics, we perform our own region free hardware modifications to ensure the quality of the player that the manufacturer had intended and to allow playback of discs from around the globe. Our large selection of region free Blu-ray players include brands such as Sony, Pioneer, Samsung, Oppo, LG, Yamaha and Panasonic. We promise complete satisfaction and honor a lifetime warranty on our hardware modifications. All of our Blu-ray players are also compatible with the future firmware updates from the manufacturer. Buy with complete confidence or contact our customer service with any questions.

The Blu-ray Disc device or drive will support playback of Blu-ray Disc purchased in the same region, unless otherwise specified in the player or computer documentation. In other words, computers and Blu-ray Disc players purchased in countries / regions corresponding to region A can play back Blu-ray Discs for region A, but cannot play back Blu-ray Discs for region B or region C. (The exception is a disc, player or drive coded as Region FREE.) The same will be true for a computer or Blu-ray Disc player purchased in another region.

Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs are region-free and can be played back using a player that supports Ultra HD Blu-ray, regardless of the region where they were purchased.

There are a handful of different reasons as to why region codes are used to restrict the playback of discs. The first and foremost reason is the fact that new films nearly always have different release dates (sometimes months apart) for different areas of the world. Movie production companies and movie studios (as well as the general box office) utilize region coding in an attempt to prevent losses that could be incurred if certain areas of the world had premature access to unreleased films. For example, when a film has been in North American theaters for quite some time and is ready to be released to Blu-ray or DVD, it may have not yet even had its official UK theater release. This means that people from the UK could easily order a copy of the DVD from the US prior to the UK theater release date, which in turn, would negatively affect UK box office sales. Region coding helps deter this practice, thereby allowing vested parties to reap maximum profits. This also applies to differences in currency value, preventing people from paying much less for movies by ordering them from a country where the monetary exchange rate is very high.

Aside from profitability, there are other reasons for the use of region codes. Governments and Religious Groups in other regions of the world often have strict authority over what type of content is acceptable for viewing. In these areas, region coding is effectively leveraged to censor content that is considered to be unethical, improper, or undesirable.

In total, there are 3 separate Blu-Ray region codes. These codes are classified alphabetically as Region A, Region B, and Region C. Blu-ray discs that have been manufactured in region A are embedded with region code A, and are therefore only usable with players from region A. The same is applicable for regions B and C. Below is a map showing how Blu-ray region codes are separated and administered by geographic location.

Guide map of Blu-ray region codes. This map shows the different Blu-ray codes and which areas they are utilized in. Click the map to view in full-size

There are 6 individual region codes with which DVDs are embedded. These 6 region codes function in the same way as Blu-ray region codes. A DVD disc from region 1 would be encoded as region code 1 and is therefore only operable in a DVD player that originated from region 1. The same is true for region 2, region 3, and so on and so forth, all the way to region 6. The map below shows how DVD region codes are separated and administered by geographic location.

Region 1: USA & Canada, Bermuda, and US Territories

The Blu-ray Disc device or drive will support playback of Blu-ray Disc purchased in the same region unless otherwise specified in the player or computer documentation. In other words, computers and Blu-ray Disc players purchased in countries corresponding to region A can play back Blu-ray Discs for region A, but cannot play back Blu-ray Discs for region B or region C. (The exception is a disc, player or drive coded as Region FREE.) The same will be true for a computer or Blu-ray Disc player purchased in another region.

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of storing several hours of high-definition video (HDTV 720p and 1080p). The main application of Blu-ray is as a medium for video material such as feature films and for the physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The name refers to the blue laser (actually a violet laser) used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs.

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