Ike Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 I ordered an American BluRay disk forgetting it might be region locked. I have a BluRay player on my laptop so I was wondering if that was region free or if there is a program that will play it?
Guest Jordan Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 DVD's are in some cases not region locked. As for BD players? I thought they were all region locked.
Nolan Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 Hmm.... I think Standalone players are legion locked, I believe the PS3 isn't (games/movies) but I really don't know about on a Laptop/PC. Even if it is I'm sure a little looking could find you a work around, that's the beauty of a PC. Some one cracks everything.
Gentleben Posted November 7, 2008 Posted November 7, 2008 Talking of Blu Ray players does anyone know if you can purchase a Portable Bluray player. At the moment I have a Shinco 7'' Portable DVD player, but if you apply pressure to the disk tray/knock it then it resets the DVD back to the root menu-very annoying (but I've had it for serveral years now)
Guest Jordan Posted November 7, 2008 Posted November 7, 2008 Considering the CPU power thats in most BD players? Don't count on a portable one for a few years. It'll be as big as a 70's VCR.
Gentleben Posted November 7, 2008 Posted November 7, 2008 Considering the CPU power thats in most BD players? Don't count on a portable one for a few years. It'll be as big as a 70's VCR. That's disappointing news. Guess I'II have to consider a Portable DVD player then-thinking of this one- http://www.firebox.com/product/825/Shinco-Portable-DVD-Player
Emasher Posted November 8, 2008 Posted November 8, 2008 I don't know why you would want a portable Blu-ray player. Surely 720p is enough for that small of a screen. Unless you have a huge Blu-ray collection or something.
Gentleben Posted November 8, 2008 Posted November 8, 2008 I don't know why you would want a portable Blu-ray player. Surely 720p is enough for that small of a screen. Unless you have a huge Blu-ray collection or something. Actually I don't have any Blu ray discs. But I'd consider switching to Blu ray since it seems to be the way foward in movies/TV show etc. I wanted a portable one because I travel quite a lot between London/Birmingham and Sheffield. Guess I'II be sticking with good old DVD for the moment.
RoadKill Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 Actually I don't have any Blu ray discs. But I'd consider switching to Blu ray since it seems to be the way foward in movies/TV show etc. I wanted a portable one because I travel quite a lot between London/Birmingham and Sheffield. Guess I'II be sticking with good old DVD for the moment. I'm pretty sure there's nothing on blu-ray that isn't on DVD, for cheaper. I certainly wouldn't fret about blu-ray yet
Jon Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 Blu Ray is region coded, but is split differently to DVD. A - America B - Europe, Africa and Australia C - Asia However many Blu Ray discs are actually region free as most studios aren't region encoding their releases. Paramount and Universal have released all their discs as region free. Sony, Walt Disney and New Line have released most as region free where as Fox have released all but a hand few as region locked. Check here for what's region free and what's not.
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