DVD Region Code

'Evening Guys, yesterday I was trying out some DVDs from the US and but when I tried my DVD player showed, "INVALID REGION", I tried the rest and then decided to look for a solution on the net, then I got this piece of information which helped me understand it.

DVD REGION CODE

DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region.DVDs may use one code, a combination of codes (multi-region), every code (all region) or no codes (region free). The Regions are as follows: 

Code	Area
0	Informal term meaning "worldwide". Region 0 is not an official setting; discs that bear the region 0 symbol either have no flag set or have regions 1–6 flags set. Region 0 is commonly referred to as "Region Free", especially when talking about DVD and Blu-ray Disc players.
1	United States, Canada, Bermuda, Caribbean, U.S. territories
2	Europe, Middle East, Egypt, Japan, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Greenland, French Overseas departments and territories
3	Southeast Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau
4	South America, Central America, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea and much of Oceania
5	Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Africa (except Egypt, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho), Central Asia, Mongolia,North Korea
6	China
7	Reserved for future use, MPAA-related DVDs and "media copies" of pre-releases in Asia
8	International venues such as aircraft, cruise ships, spacecraft, etc.
ALL	Region ALL discs have all eight flags set, allowing the disc to be played in any location, on any player.

DVD REGION ON THE MAP

What is the Purpose of these Region Codes?

One, purpose is controlling release dates. A practice of movie marketing threatened by the advent of digital home video is to release a movie to cinemas, and then for general sale, later in some countries than in others. This is common partly because releasing a movie at the same time worldwide can be prohibitively expensive. Videotapes were inherently regional since formats had to match those of the encoding system used by television stations in that particular region, such as NTSC and PAL, although from early 1990s PAL machines increasingly offered NTSC playback. DVDs are less restricted in this sense, and region coding allows movie studios to better control the global release dates of DVDs.

One other purpose of region coding is to prevent release of movies that could be offensive in such regions for cultural, religious, and political reasons. Region coding helps prevent release of such films in sensitive territories.

Finally, the copyright in some titles has different owners in different territories. Region coding allows copyright holders to prevent a DVD from being purchased from a region from which they do not derive royalties.

SO, WHAT'S THE FINAL REMEDY??

There are many sites offering hacks and help to change the DVD Region of your player, like 
www.multi-region.net is an excellent site!

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