BLU-RAY REGION CODES EXPLAINED | IS 4K BLU-RAY REGION-FREE? 

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.

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.

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 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.

And Code Red as well.

That’s good to note. I’m just using the common terms.

Some players I agree. Both of mine somehow automatically play most of the time and I switch between region a and b all the time. But if you run into the dreaded region lock screen 220 electronics instructions (comes with players) are super easy

True, but "region-free" has been the common term for them since the DVD era even though it's a slight misnomer for Blu-ray. My LG player (bought from 220 five years ago) is truly region-free for DVD; for Blu-ray you press a number key for your region while the tray is open (1 for A, 2 for B, 3 for C).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You know those are hack jobs and vary in quality? There's no such thing officially.

@Scott Tilden yes they do, I’ve got dvds from regions 1-5 and they all work perfectly fine with my region free player. Honestly, I don’t use dvds that much anyway so I don’t really care that much about them. But I had to test them out with my player.

@MadFinnTech I know that their not officially sold from their manufacturing company, but they do not vary in quality. In fact, everything is the same except the coding. I’ve got a Sony ubp-x800 region free player and that’s a beast. Had it for a year and a half now and works perfectly fine and can play any Blu Rays/DVDs from around the world. I don’t know if you had any experience with a region free player, but it may depend on which player you buy. Some players are cheap for a reason so they cheap out in quality. But has nothing to do with region coding.

Locking oneself in.

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 😔

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.

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

@@Music.Movies.67 how do u rip the disc

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 '

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

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

LOL