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DVD Region Coding

Region Playback Control Management

All DVD Video Playback systems have “Region Playback Control”

(RPC) which is required by Hollywood movie industry and defined by

DVD Forum. You can only play DVD-Video discs with the same

region code as your DVD-Video Playback system.

As for DVD-ROM drives, one kind of the DVD-Video Playback

system, there are 2 types:

RPC Phase 1 (as RPC1): RPC1 drives do not have built-in hardware

support for region management. DVD-ROM drives of this kind don’t

play a part in controlling the playback region. It solely depends on

the decoder.

RPC Phase 2 (as RPC2): RPC2 drives maintain the region change

count information in hardware, and in general, the region of such

drives can be changed up to 5 times by the end users under some

software decoder. (e.g. PowerDVD)

Region Codes

Region 1: Canada, U.S.

Region 2: Japan, Europe, South Africa, and Middle East, Egypt

Region 3: Southeast Asia and East Asia

Region 4: Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central America,

Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean

Region 5: Eastern Europe, Indian subcontinent, Africa, North Korea,

and Mongolia

Region 6: China

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