0 was the only one that was region free.

and oil rigs we had to get movies thru the company & was wage docked for them "unless this is coved by cruise ships" was not long till we had a guy that had all the newest on DVDr rf and if we ever got an inspection by gov or a audit by comp all the DVDr went overbord but this was a long time ago and i imagine it all SD cards USB now.

100%. What happens if you have a huge blu-ray collection that you've spent thousands on and you decide to move country one day for whatever reason...all of those blu rays suddenly become useless to you, such a heartbreaking thought. Luckily I only buy 4K titles but that's really shit for people who have a lot of blu rays.

Tetsuo The Iron Man?

​@@richardskelding4528 No not true . There are region free players that can play anything and If a person decide to move from country to a country he can take his player with him or buy region free player So it's not that an issue

Yep, dvd didn't have this bullshit

@@Dragonk116 dvd was worse as there were more region codes.

Same. My Godzilla collection spans 2 different Blu-ray regions and 3 different DVD regions. So getting myself a region free player was an absolute worthwhile investment.

But if you buy combo's the dvd still had region codes so you were still fucked.... Because the player wasn't region free... If you buy a region free br player they are also region free for dvd....

And that was one of the reasons hollywood stopped support for HD DVD.

@@proclaimed75 same as your still fucked if you buy 4Ks that have a blu ray copy as well as even tho the 4K is region free the blu ray isn't

Thank God 4k movies are region free

Apparently HD DVD was going to be region free. But studios hated that. So they backed blue ray.

If it's a 4k disc, it's region free. The included Blu-ray's may or may not be region locked.

@@dan_hitchman007 ... Right. But I've collected some Blu-rays that are not Region A (because they aren't available in N. America) that have been terrific to have and enjoy 🙂.

They're all region free, no?

Region-free for 4K only, or for Blu-ray & DVD as well?

@@richellebrittain2127 region free 4k players mean region free for Blu-ray and DVDs since 4k discs are supposed to be region free by default. If you import Blu-ray and DVDs but also wants a 4k player gotta get region free 4k player

@@Will.the.book.dragon All 4K Blu-ray players are region-free for 4K, but that does NOT mean they're region-free for Blu-ray & DVD. They need a region-free mod to be region-free for Blu-ray & DVD, like the region-free players at 220 & similar stores.

@@richellebrittain2127 that's what I was saying.

I collect Best Picture winners, and there's now three of them that have been released on Blu-ray in other countries but *not* here; one of those is Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948), released Region B-locked in much of Europe by ITV but Criterion still sells it only on DVD. (It did get a Region A release in Japan but it's OOP & prohibitively expensive.) The Lost Weekend (1945) was released by Eureka/MoC on Region B Blu-ray; Universal licensed it to Kino Lorber for U.S. Blu-ray but we're still waiting. And Shock Entertainment released Ordinary People (1980) on Region B Blu-ray in Australia earlier this year, though I can tell you from experience it's the same transfer as Vudu's HDX streaming copy. I also have a region-free player from 220 and bought most (though not all) of my foreign discs from Amazon UK.

@@richellebrittain2127 I collect almost any type of movies. If I had to say the main thing I collect. It would be Robin hood. I have almost every version released in film and tv series.

Nah. No point there. Just rip the movie files and put it on a Plex or similar software server. Easiest Netflix alternative ever, and it's legal since you have to buy the movie and rip it with software like makemkv.

In theory, right?

Odin!!!!!!!!!!

@@ccateni28 in that case you're losing fidelity, one of the main reasons you'd bother buying the disc in the first place. Its also still illegal to rip the blu ray, it doesn't matter whether you bought it or not

do yourself a favour and don’t watch agents of shield

@@3flavourscornetto237 sorry have to give you a down vote. It's an awesome show

wait so you own a blu ray player that is not subject to any region restrictions? damn! where do I buy it

The best way today is to get a NAS "network-attached storage" and if your media is SD upto 4TB will do HD 8+TB and UHD 20+TB this will be the only way to have a local copy oneday.

@@hicobra Great thinking

The sleeve or outer packaging may only show the Australian rating symbols for products sold in Australia but like the U.K., Europe and Australia is Region B and the discs show all ratings for the Region it covers, unless there is a licensing issue and that product is not supposed to be sold in a specific market even if it's covered under the Region Code. I'm from the U.K. and almost every Blu-Ray and 4K disc I have has the U.K., Europe (German, French, Irish, Danish, etc), Australian rating on the actual disc but only the U.K. rating on the Sleeve or outer packaging for box sets. I have several Blu-Ray's from Germany that only have the German rating as they were solely made for the German market. Unfortunately we are short changed here in the U.K. many Movies/T.V. Shows that are released here are only given a DVD release, even if their released on Blu-Ray in other Region B country's like Europe and Australia. For example I bought The Blacklist Seasons 1 - 4 in the U.K. on Blu-Ray, but from Season 5 they only released it on DVD. So I had to buy Season 5 & 6 on Blu-Ray from Australia as it is a Region B country and I'm just waiting for the Season 7 Blu-Ray release so I can get that. Same for The Last Ship they only released Seasons 1 & 2 on Blu-Ray in the U.K. so from Season 3 I had to buy the Australian release. I could buy the U.S. Region A releases as I do have a Region Free Blu-Ray Player, but I prefer to limit purchases of media that I'd need extra equipment for just in case in the future I have problems getting the equipment should I ever need to replace it.

I love 88films. I have quite a few of their titles that you can't find in America even if they were an American movie

Don't forget Second Sight too which is putting out some amazing titles. Eureka is definitely my favourite distributor after Criterion though, they put out a lot of great titles.

Just rip the disc then you will be able to watch all locked features

@@MusicMovies67 how do u rip the disc

I think that’s what I’ve found. I adjusted the gain but I’m so used to being louder so the old mic picks it up better! Lol. I’ll work on it.

Video formats are usually a different issue than region coding, especially for Blu-ray where the format often, but not always, transcends NTSC vs. PAL/SECAM. (DVD had NTSC vs. PAL differences on top of region coding; SECAM only made a difference in SD player outputs as SECAM is just PAL with different color encoding.) Though some Blu-ray & DVD players will balk at PAL or PAL-framerate video, others won't. If you're looking for a region-free player, 220's website tells you which ones do internal NTSC/PAL conversion.

Should have gotten instructions to manually switch zones if it didn't auto switch it. Most of my Blu-ray auto switch the zones. There's a handful I have to manually switch but it still should work...

The type of film censor classifications are always a big give away as to what part of the world a particular release is from & hence what region coding you should expect it to be. The UK BBFC rating will always have a big U, 12, 15 or 18 rating slapped all over the case & disc for instance & all the other countries have their own rather distinctive style of classification on their releases.

UK releases tend to be more honest about their region coding; if it only has a B symbol it's probably region-locked. OTOH, Fox used to label all its U.S. Blu-rays as Region A only even though many of them were actually region-free; that's why you need a region-free player or at least look it up on a site like Blu-ray.com.

I should definitely try that, any drive in specific you recommend? :)

And Code Red as well.

Just an update region B DVD’s work just by putting the disk in but if you want the blu ray to work. 1. Open the disk try 2. Press the blue button on the remote 3. Close the disk tray & it starts up. It was tough finding instructions 😔

by the way 15 is circled ,, then again 15 is square shaped around the number then there is a 16 ... on the back of dvd case 15 is showing only in a square shape' it is a Danish import '