PHMustang2000

I am purchasing a PS3 in a couple days and from what I know about Blu-ray is that it is region free??

So does this mean it can also play region 2 DVD's or any other regions?

Gizmo

Blu-ray is NOT Region Free
DVD is NOT Region Free.

As of today, 1/3/2009, there is only ONE Stand Alone Blu-ray player that is Region free fr both Blu-ray and DVD, and that is the LG 200 Blu-ray/HD DVD Combo player. The PS3 only plays Region A Blu-rays and Region 1 (and I would assume 0) DVDs.

Blu-ray region coding isn't a bad as DVD, but there are still many titles only available in Region B and C (A is USA/Canada)

Nick Martin

Not only that, but there's the issue of PAL.

PS3 will not play a PAL video file either, be it an MPEG video file taken from a DVD source, or an AVI or Divx file.

HOWEVER, with Blu-ray there is no PAL or NTSC issue with the HD presentations of the film, except (possibly) with additional bonus material in standard definition on those BDs, but I'm not 100% on that last part.

So watching a european Blu-ray Disc means not suffering with PAL speedup on the film itself, at least.

movielib

There are other countries in Region A, most notably Japan.


Quick country/territory reference guide to Blu-Ray Regions:
Region A: North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
Region B: Europe, Greenland, French territories, Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Region C: India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mainland China, Pakistan, Russia, Central and South Asia.