|
Region |
Countries |
|
0 |
No Region Coding |
|
1 |
United States of America, Canada |
|
2 |
Europe, including France, Greece, Turkey,
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Japan and South Africa |
|
3 |
Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo and
Indonesia |
|
4 |
Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, the
Caribbean, and South America |
|
5 |
India, Africa, Russia and former USSR
countries |
|
6 |
Peoples Republic of China |
|
7 |
Unused |
|
8 |
Airlines/Cruise Ships |
|
9 |
Expansion (often used as region free) |
The world is split
up into 7 DVD regions, 1-6 shown on the map above as well as
region 0 that will play on all drives. Original generation DVD
drives came with a firmware level that has become known as RPC
1. RPC 1 drives themselves are capable of playing any region but
are dependant on the installed player software to control which
region is played.
Once software became available that was able
to change the players region RPC 2 was implemented.
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