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What does the term zone mean in reference to a DVD player ?
Steve
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Zones refers to different parts of the world. I am in Australia and we are zone four. Currently there are only about 500 zone four disc availiable. The zones are there for the big hollywood studios to control the release times and distribution of discs. Some zone 1 (USA & Canada) DVDs are released before we even have the movies in the cinemas.
As you probably know, you can easily buy a DVD player that is "region-free" (i.e., a player that will play DVDs with any region code). Just do a Web search on "region-free" and "DVD" and you'll get tons of hits. I'm using a Kones DVD-3000 (manufactured by Samsung) -- it is not only region-free, but also Macrovision-disabled, which means that you can record from DVD to videotape. BTW, I live in Japan (region 2), and wanted a region-free DVD player so I could play region-1 DVDs purchased from Amazon in the US.
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