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Thread ID: 123161 2012-02-07 23:22:00 Blu Ray Zoning hsvman12 (12360) Press F1
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1257937 2012-02-07 23:22:00 Hi,

Ok, so I know about blu ray zoning, we're region B. I recently brought some blu rays from trademe and when they arrived, 2 of them are quite clearly marked zone A. I thought I'd try them in my NZ zone B blu ray player, and to my surprise both of them played all the way through.

Has anyone else experienced this or know how this is possible?

Cheers
hsvman12 (12360)
1257938 2012-02-07 23:30:00 possibilites
- your BR player may have been made Zone free, really easy on some
- your BR was allways zone free from the factory (just to save manufacturing costs??)
- The disk's are actually all zone free (just to save manufacturing costs??)

or
-there are lots of pirated/copied/fake goods on tradme.
Pirated DVD & BR probhably will be Zone free.
1101 (13337)
1257939 2012-02-07 23:38:00 I actually thought they had finally done away with zoning on Blu-Ray disks. wratterus (105)
1257940 2012-02-08 00:13:00 hmmn
Looks like youre right. From wiki

"Movie studios have different region coding policies. Among major U.S. studios, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios have released all of their titles region-free. Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. have released most of their titles region-free. Lionsgate and Walt Disney Pictures have released a mix of region-free and region-coded titles. 20th Century Fox and MGM have released most of their titles region-coded."
1101 (13337)
1257941 2012-02-08 01:09:00 Interesting, probably about right, they can never standardize anything these days. :groan: wratterus (105)
1257942 2012-02-08 03:48:00 That was the advantage of HD-DVD. It was region free as a part of the spec.. paulw (1826)
1257943 2012-02-08 05:02:00 That was the advantage of HD-DVD. It was region free as a part of the spec..

I was going to say that too.
Agent_24 (57)
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