LG BH100 Training Manual page 16

OVERVIEW
In the simplest of terms, a DVD Movie
sold in the U.S. will not play in a DVD
Player in Europe, where the theatrical
version of the movie could still be playing.
REGION 1 – USA, Canada, US Territo-
ries
REGION 2 – Europe, Japan, South
Africa, the Middle East, Greenland
REGION 3 – South Korea, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, Most of South East
Asia
REGION 4 – Australia, New Zealand (Oceania), Latin America (Central and South America)
REGION 5 – Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia, India, Africa
REGION 6 – China
REGION 7 – Reserved for Unspecified Special Use
REGION 8 – Reserved for Cruise Ships, Airlines, etc...
REGION 0 or REGION ALL – Discs are un-coded and can be played Worldwide, however, PAL
discs must be played in a PAL-compatible unit and NTSC discs in a NTSC-compatible unit.
LG – Zenith DVD Players sold in the U.S. and Canada are designed to play DVD discs labeled Region
"1" or "ALL" ("0"). Any modification to a DVD Player to enable it to play a DVD disc with any other
Region Code is prohibited and automatically voids the warranty.
NOTE: Some DVD discs may not have a region code label even though their playback is
prohibited by area limits.
RCE (REGIONAL CODING ENHANCEMENT) FOR DVD
Shortly after the establishment of DVDs on the market, certain people began to circumvent the
Region Code system and modify DVD Players to play all DVDs, regardless of Region Codes. The
players are usually referred to as "Region Free" or "Multi-Region" DVD Players. Any DVD Player that
has been modified, either physically or via software, no longer conforms to the DVD Standard and is
void of any warranty. Most often, the manner in which DVD Players are modified to become "Region
Free" is that the Region Code embedded in the unit is changed to zero (0), meaning all regions.
This initial method would allow most any DVD disc to play within the unit since the most common
"check" for the disc was for the software (on the disc) to confirm that the DVD Player was either
the same Region Code on the disc, or "0" (ALL).
Some production studios have added additional coding to the software on DVD movies called RCE,
or Regional coding Enhancement. In short, the RCE coding checks the Region Code setting on the
DVD Player. If the Region Code of the player is 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8, then the disc will not play
and an error screen is displayed. If the DVD Player's Region Code is "1", then the disc is playable
(RCE is only used on Region 1 DVDs).
NOTE: Due to the way that the software on some DVD Players establishes the Region Code,
RCE encoded DVDs may displayed the error message even if the DVD Player has never
been modified or hacked. By entering the System Information screen, you can
determine the Region Code that the DVD is set to. If the DVD Player is set to Region
1, report the problem, including all disc information and firmware version, to the
Engineering Department.
BH100 Blu-ray Player
DVD Region Codes
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2
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5
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3
5
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Overview