sparks

I want to buy some original Japanese Godzilla movies in the original Japanese language from Japan. I have a Pioneer DVD-700 Combination player and it sez that if the disc is coded with all of these numbers only: 1-2-3-4 or 1-2-3 it will play, but if coded 2-3-4-5 or 2-3 it will not.

My question is what is the regional coding on a Japanese DVD. Is it 2 by itself or a combination of codes with a 1 included

dq102

So go ahead!!!

dvd2001

I thought that most Japanese DVDs were region 3, ntsc, but I'm not a reliable source for that information.
If it is region 3 only, I don't think the player you have now will play it, from what you've stated.

I recently ordered the Japanese film "Audition" from DDDhouse, on my first order, and it is region 3, so I don't expect it to play on either my JVC or Toshiba players (I'm in the U.S.), but I think I might be able to watch it on my computer's DVD-rom drive. When I put a region 1 disc in there, it has other regions showing, but greyed out, and I think that means it might be ready to recognize some other region discs. When I put an "all-region" HK disc in there, the region box didn't even pop up, the disc just started up.

Hendrik

...Japan is Region 2 NTSC...

...some Japanese (and some Korean, some Mainland Chinese, some Thai) movies in my DVD 'collection' are encoded R3 when they are released on Hong Kong Labels... probably a 'contractual' thing, since most Hong Kong DVDs that I have, are encoded R0 (a.k.a. Region All or All Region) regardless of whether they contain a movie made in Hong Kong, in Mainland China, or in Thailand... and all of them are encoded NTSC...

http://www.laserrot.com/info/lrinfo/dvdmap.html

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dvd2001

Hendrik,
Thanks for clearing that up.
Well, I figure that if I'm able to play the region 3 version of "Audition" on my computer, then I should be able to play some other region-encoded discs that way.
Of course, an all-region type player is on my want list, because I'd much rather watch films on my new Sony 57" widescreen tv than on my 17" computer monitor.

rexinnih

Like Hendrik said, Japan is region 2 NTSC.

I have a region free player that has no problem playing region 1 DVDs (majority of my collection) or region 2 DVDs I buy here in Japan.

sparks

Well, I think I won't be able to play those Japanese ones on my player. If what you are saying is this, that Japanese are Region 2 only and my player needs it to say Region 1 along with Region 2.

Thanks for all your help!

MovieMan11779

Check out the Pioneer DV-515. It plays all DVDs (doesn't matter which region) I have region 1 and 2 DVDs. They all play just fine in it. And you can manualy switch from PAL to NTSC and NTSC to PAL. It even plays the protected RC1's like Hollow Man and a few others. In this case you can switch the code manualy otherwise the player will do it itself.

UAIOE

Where would i find one of these?