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No need. You do realize most imports are not region locked?

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Harmonia

In Reply to: RE: Here you go (link) posted by 4season on October 19, 2008 at 08:47:16

Here's a good site below for checking whether a disc is region free (ABC) or region locked. Region A includes both US and Japan so that's nice for a change from SD DVDs.

Somewhere close to 70% of the releases appear to be unlocked. Some of the locked BDs are also released in US. I only found one film out of 16 I wanted (This Is England) that wasn't ABC.

I dunno that it's necessary to buy a RB player yet. The films I'm interested in buying aren't available on this side of the pond in BD and may never be. Exploited Cinema is a great site to get Euro imports from. I've also used Amazon UK very happily.

Blu-Ray disc region codes index (Open in New Window)

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Great link, thank you [nt] - 4season 22:38:33 10/21/08 (0)
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Thanks for this link. I have seen it in the past but didn't - townsend 18:45:07 10/21/08 (0)
how to find it again.

Unfortunately, Mongol region B (UK) is not "region free." We shouldn't really have to screw with this region code stuff . . . it's so stupid. If regions were so important, there would be six of 'em, like w/ DVD, not just three.
There's a reasonable number that are not - Jack G 05:06:04 10/21/08 (1)
Mostly catalog titles being released in the UK.
Jack
- Many of those are also released here... - Harmonia 13:47:10 10/21/08 (0)
  ...eventually. Sometimes they're released a bit later, but - so far at least - they do come out in Region A.
  With my main interests being foreign, classic and arthouse, I've come across very very few Region B discs that are locked which I would be consider pruchasing...and believe me, I've looked. That includes GB, FR and DE and others. I haven't looked at the Russians C discs much - yet. I found 20+ "B" BDs I could be interested in last week, 16 I really wanted and only one of those was locked. I can't say that's worth spending extra money for a region fere player.
  I have very little to no interest in blockbusters and most popular releases. And they come out in US anyway. I'm sure there will be a couple mroe locked discs on my wish list, but so far so good. And the C region discs have all been unlocked so far (very few released).
  
  Edits: 10/21/08

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