 | DVD REGION CODES
How does the DVD system work internationally?
The DVD system is a digital one, and is therefore not dependent on the regional television systems found internationally: NTSC in the USA and Japan, PAL in Europe. VHS tapes were/are dependent on these systems. DVD players sold in Europe are designed to connect to a European television set (PAL), whereas DVD players sold in the USA are designed to connect to an NTSC television, but the player itself is in neither.
Most European DVD players can theoretically play an NTSC disc. However this is complicated by the international region codes that are applied to DVDs: this is because most DVDs sold are governed by the strict control of the Hollywood studios which release movies in different countries at different times. Region coding the discs makes it possible for them to block DVD sales in a country until the film has been on general release there.
Some DVD discs are given multi-region coding, and some are coded 0, which means all regions. Code 0 is used on discs that might be regarded as of minority interest: opera and ballet fall into this category, and by issuing the discs in one code only, the distributors have an economical solution to international sales. However, it does mean that all the discs will be burned in one system or the other (PAL or NTSC). If a disc is NTSC and region 0, there should be no problem playing it in Europe.
It is increasingly common for DVD players to be sold as multi-region friendly: the machines are geared to play the local system but can easily be set to play all systems. The seller will generally tell you how to make the adjustment to play all regions when you buy the player.
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The Beggar's Opera
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%) John Gay Created especially for television. Roger Daltrey, Bob Hoskins, Stratford ... |
Don Giovanni
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Porgy and Bess
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The Gondoliers
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Patience
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HMS Pinafore and Trial By Jury
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The Mikado
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%) Gilbert and Sullivan Cast: Donald Adams, Philip Potter, John Reed, Valerie ... |
The Mikado
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Andrea Chénier
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Andrea Chénier
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Andrea Chénier
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Andrea Chénier
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Andrea Chénier
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Andrea Chénier
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Fedora
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Fedora
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Satyagraha
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A Life for the Tsar
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Ruslan and Lyudmila
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Alceste
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Alceste
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Iphigenie en Tauride
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Orfeo ed Euridice
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Orfeo ed Euridice
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orphee et eurydice
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Orphee et Eurydice
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Orphée et Eurydice
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Orpheus and Eurydice
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Faust
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Faust
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Mireille (Scenes)
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Romeo et Juliette
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Romeo et Juliette
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Pierre le Grand
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La Juive
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Noé
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Agrippina
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Agrippina
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Alcina
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Ariodante
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Julius Caesar
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Giulio Cesare
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Giulio Cesare
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Giulio Cesare
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Giulio Cesare
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Hercules
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Rinaldo
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Rodelinda
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Rodelinda
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Serse
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Tammerlano
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Teseo
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Theodora
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Xerxes
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La Serva Scaltra
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Lo Speziale
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Der Prinz von Homburg
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L'Upupa
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Naughty Marietta
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Hansel und Gretel
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Hansel und Gretel
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The Cunning Little Vixen
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The Cunning Little Vixen
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Das Schlaue Fuchslein
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Jenufa
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Kata Kabanova
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Katia Kabanova
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The Makropulos Case
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Die Csárdásfurstin
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The Gypsy Princess
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Die Herzogin von Chicago
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Die Tote Stadt
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Antikrist
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The Count of Luxemberg
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%) Franz Lehar Der Graf von Luxemberg Cast:Bo Skovhus, Juliane Banse, Rainer ... |
The Merry Widow
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%) Franz Lehar Cast: Yvonne Kenny, Bo Skovhus, Angelika Kirchschlager, Gregory Turay ... |
Die Lustige Witwe
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%) (The Merry Widow) Franz Lehár Cast: Dagmar Schellenberger, Rodney Gilfry, Ute ... |
I Pagliacci
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%) Ruggero Leoncavallo Cast: V.Atlantov, G.Kalinina, I.Morozov, I.Grigoriev Russian State Academic, Bolshoi ... |
I Pagliacci
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%) Ruggero Leoncavallo Cast: Mafalda Micheluzzi, Franco Corelli, Tito Gobbi, Mario Carlin, ... |
Pagliacci
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Pagliacci & Cavalleria Rusticana
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Zar und Zimmermann
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%) ALbert Lortzing Cast: Raymond Wolansky, Peter Haage, Hans Sotin, Lucia Popp, ... |
Persee
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%) Jean - Baptiste Lully Cast: Cyril Auvity, MArie Lenormand, Stephanie ... |
