What is the “Regional Code” for a DVD player?
Also referred to as Country Codes, or Zone Locks, these are optional codes that the movie industry imposed on DVD-Video specifications. Pre-recorded DVD-Video discs will be coded by region, and these discs will only play in players manufactured for that specific region. The codes are meant to minimize piracy of DVD-Video discs by making them unusable outside of their geographical area of manufacture. DVD-Video discs with no regional codes can be played by any DVD player. The six regional codes are: 1: North America, 2: Japan, Europe, Middle East, South Africa, 3: Southeast Asia (plus Hong Kong), 4: Australia, New Zealand, Central & South America, 5: Northwest Asia, North Africa, and 6: China. For Plextor drives: When the drive first ships, there is no region code set. The first DVD disc that contains a regional setting, when inserted into the PlexCombo drive, will set that drive to that regional code. If a user then inserts a DVD containing a different regional code, the user will be p
