How to Unlock the Region Coding on your DVD Player

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DVD Region coding is a security system introduced to DVD at the request of Hollywood's major studios to ensure that DVDs released and sold in one region will not play on DVD machines in other regions.

This has been done so that movie distributors therefore maintain control over release dates of their films, as well as enabling discs to be produced that conform to different censorship laws, language and subtitle requirements.

When a DVD disc is manufactured, a region code is applied at the authoring stage such that the final disc will play only on those players distributed in the designated world region.

There are 6 regions throughout the world:

Region 1 - Canada, United States and its Territories
Region 2 - Japan, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East
Region 3 - Southeast Asia and East Asia
Region 4 - Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central and South America
Region 5 - Indian Subcontinent, Former Soviet Union and Africa
Region 6 - China

Additionally, DVDs may be encoded as Region 0 or Region All, which means that they are compatible in all regions.

Traditionally, DVD players are also programmed with a Region Code. To be able to play a DVD, the region codes of both the DVD Player and DVD must be the same!

With the explosion of online purchases, region coding has become a major issue. As long as purchasing a DVD from an overseas country does not impinge on, or break any copywrite laws, a person may purchase a DVD from Australia to play in the USA and vice versa. If the DVD player is not "multi zoned" or "multi region", then there will be problems.

How do you remedy "Region Coded" DVD players?

Most mainstream DVD players (including those in computers) have codes that may be entered via the Remote Control. These codes "reprogram" the Player to allow it to read DVDs in other zones.

DVD UNLOCKER is a program that has 1500+ codes for mainstream DVD player, so that reprogramming may be achieved quickly and easily.

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