 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.
DVD CODING
[ 0 ] PLAYABLE IN ALL REGIONS.
[ 1 ] BERMUDA, CANADA, UNITED STATES & U.S TERRITORIES.
[ 2 ] THE MIDDLE EAST, WESTERN EUROPE, CENTRAL EUROPE, EGYPT, FRENCH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES, GREENLAND, JAPAN, LESOTHO, SOUTH AFRICA & SWAZILAND.
[ 3 ] SOUTHEAST ASIA, HONG KONG, MACAU, SOUTH KOREA & TAIWAN.
[ 4 ] AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, CENTRAL AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN, MEXICO, OCEANIA AND SOUTH AMERICA (SANS FRENCH GUYANA).
[ 5 ] THE REST OF AFRICA, FORMER SOVIET UNION, THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, MONGOLIA AND NORTH KOREA.
[ 6 ] MAINLAND CHINA.
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Alphabetical by Composer
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Baldassarre Galuppi
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Il Re alla Caccia
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Baldassarre Galuppi. [The King of Caccai] Cast: Claudio Zancope, Vito Martino, ... |
John Gay
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The Beggar's Opera
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) John Gay Created especially for television. Roger Daltrey, Bob Hoskins, Stratford ... |
Giuseppe Gazzaniga
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Don Giovanni
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Gazzaniga Cast: Roberto Iuliano, Linda Campanella, Maurizio Leoni, Cristina Matese, ... |
George Gershwin
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Porgy and Bess
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Gershwin Cast Include: Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Gregg Baker, Cynthia Clarey ... |
Gilbert & Sullivan
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The Gondoliers
Price: £15.99 (Including VAT) Gilbert & Sullivan Cast: David Hobson, Roger Lemke, Suzanne Johnston, Christine ... |
Patience
Price: £15.99 (Including VAT) Gilbert & Sullivan Cast: Christine Douglas, Heather Begg, Anthony Warlow, Dennis ... |
HMS Pinafore and Trial By Jury
Price: £15.99 (Including VAT) Gilbert & Sullivan Cast: Anthony Warlow, David Hobson, Colette Mann, John ... |
The Mikado
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Gilbert and Sullivan Cast: Donald Adams, Philip Potter, John Reed, Valerie ... |
The Mikado
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Gilbert & Sullivan Sung in English Cast: Anne-Marie McDonald, Peter Cousens, ... |
Umberto Giordano
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Andrea Chénier
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) A Royal Opera House Production Umberto Giordano Cast: Placido Domingo, Anna ... |
Andrea Chénier
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Umberto Giordano Cast Includes: Franco Corelli, Piero Cappuccilli, Celestina Casapietra, Giovanna ... |
Andrea Chénier
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Umberto Giordano Cast: José Carreras, Eva Marton, Piero Cappuccilli, Silvana Mazzieri, ... |
Andrea Chénier
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Umberto Giordano Cast: Placido Domingo, Piero Cappuccilli, Gabriela Benackova, Rohangiz Yachmi, ... |
Andrea Chénier
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Umberto Giordano Cast: José Cura, Maria Guleghina, Carlo Guelfi, Giacinta Nicotra, ... |
Andrea Chénier
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Umberto Giordano Cast: Del Monaco, Stella, Taddei Orchestra of RAI, Conductor: ... |
Andrea Chénier
Price: £27.99 (Including VAT) Umberto Giordano. Cast: Mario Del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Aldo Protti, Anna ... |
Fedora
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Umberto Giordano Cast: Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo, Ainhoa Arteta, Dwayne Croft, ... |
Fedora
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Umberto Giordano Cast: Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo, Adelina Scarabelli, Alessandro Corbelli, ... |
Philip Glass
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Satyagraha
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Philip Glass Cast Includes: Leo Goeke, Ralf Harster, Helmut Danninger, Inga ... |
Mikhail Glinka
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A Life for the Tsar
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Mikhail Glinka Cast: Evgeny Nesterenko, Marina Mescheriakova, Alexander Lomonosov, Elena Zaremba, ... |
Ruslan and Lyudmila
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Mikhail Glinka Cast: Anna Netrebko, Vladimir Ognovenko, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Galina Gorchakova ... |
Christoph Gluck
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Alceste
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Christoph Willibald Gluck Cast Includes: Anne Sofie Von Otter, Paul Groves, ... |
Alceste
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Christoph Willibald Gluck Cast: Donald Kaasch, Catherine Naglestad, Bernhard Schneider, Catriona ... |
Iphigenie en Tauride
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Christoph Willibald Gluck Cast: Juliette Galstian, Rodney Gilfry, Deon Van Der ... |
Orfeo ed Euridice
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Christoph Gluck Cast: Janet Baker, Elisabeth Speiser, Elizabeth Gale Glyndebourne Festival ... |
Orfeo ed Euridice
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Christoph Willibald Gluck Cast: Jochen Kowalski, Gillian Webster, Jeremy Budd ... |
Orphee et Eurydice
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Christoph Willibald Gluck Cast Includes: Magdalena Kozena, Madeline Bender, Patricia Petibon ... |
Orphee et Eurydice
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Christoph Willibald Gluck Cast: Vesselina Kasarova, Rosemary Joshua, Deborah York Das ... |
Orphée et Eurydice
Price: £15.99 (Including VAT) Christoph WIlliband Gluck Cast: David Hobson, Amanda Thane, Miriam Gormley Opera ... |
Orpheus and Eurydice
Price: £12.99 (Including VAT) Christoph WIlliband Gluck Opera in Three Acts (Concert Version) Cast: James ... |
Charles Gounod
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Faust
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Charles Gounod. Cast: Francisco Araiza, Ruggero Raimondi, Gabriela Benacková, Walton Gronroos, ... |
Faust
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Charles Gounod. Cast: Massimiliano Tonsini, Danilo Rigosa, Leo An, Daniele Biccire', ... |
Faust
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Charles Gounod. Cast Includes: Ana Maria Gonzalez, Alfredo Kraus, Nicola Ghiuselev, ... |
Faust
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Charles Gounod. Cast: Alfredo Kraus, Renata Scotto, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Lorenzo ... |
Mireille (Scenes)
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Charles Gounod. Mireille (Abridged). Cast: Pierrette Alarie, Léopold Simoneau, Robert Savoie, ... |
Romeo et Juliette
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Charles Gounod. (Abridged) Cast: Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu. Actors and ... |
Andre Modeste Gretry
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Pierre le Grand
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Andre Modeste Gretry Maxim Mironov, Elena Voznessenskaya, Nikolia Galin, Mikhail Davidov, ... |
Jacques Fromental Halevy
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La Juive
Price: £26.99 (Including VAT) Jacques Fromental Halevy Cast: Neil Shicoff, Krassimira Stoyanova, Simina Ivan, Jianyi ... |
Noé
Price: £27.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet & Fromental Halévy Cast: Jean-Philippe Courtis, Anne-Sophie Schmidt, Philippe ... |
G F Händel
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Admeto, re di Tessaglia
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. [Admetus, King of Thessaly] Cast: Romelia Lichtenstein, ... |
Agrippina
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Veronique Gens, Philippe Jaroussky, Ingrid Perruche, Fabrice ... |
Agrippina
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Gunter von Kannen, Barbara Daniels, David Kubler, ... |
Alcina
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Catherine Naglestad, Alice Coote, Helene Schneidermann, Catriona ... |
Ariodante
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Ann Murray, Joan Rodgers, Gwynne Howell, Christopher ... |
Ariodante
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Geoarge Frideric Handel. Cast: Ann Hallenberg, Laura Cherici, Marta Vandoni ... |
Julius Caesar
Price: £27.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Janet Baker, Valerie Masterson, Sarah Walker English ... |
Giulio Cesare
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Graham Pushee, Richard Alexander, Rosemary Gunn, Elizabeth ... |
Giulio Cesare
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Flavio Oliver, Elena de la Merced, Ewa ... |
Giulio Cesare
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Sarah Connolly, Angelika Kirchschlager, Danielle de Niese, ... |
Giulio Cesare
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Jeffrey Gall, Susan Larson, Mary Westbrook-Geha, Lorraine ... |
Giulio Cesare
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Georg F Handel. Cast: Andreas School, Inger Dam-Jensen, Randi Stene, Tuva ... |
Hercules
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: William Shimell, Joyce Didonato, Toby Spence, Ingela ... |
Rinaldo
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: David Walker, Deborah York, David Daniels, Axel ... |
Rodelinda
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Umberto Chiummo, Andreas Scholl, ... |
Rodelinda
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Dorothea Röschmann, Felicity Palmer, Michael Chance, Paul ... |
Serse
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Paula Rasmussen, Ann Hallenberg, Patricia Bardon, Isabel ... |
Tammerlano
Price: £32.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Monica Bacelli, Anna Bonitatius, Thomas Randle, Elisabeth ... |
Teseo
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Jacek Laszczkowski, Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Miriam Meyer, ... |
Theodora
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Cast: Dawn Upshaw, David ... |
Xerxes
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) G F Händel. Cast: Ann Murray, Lesley Garrett, Valerie Masterson, Christopher ... |
Johann Adolph Hasse
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La Serva Scaltra
Price: £16.99 (Including VAT) Johann Adolph Hasse Cast: Cristina Baggio, Federico Sacchi Orchestra Sinfonica Carlo ... |
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
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Simplicius Simplicissimus
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Karl Amadeus Hartmann. [The Simplest Simpleton] Cast: Claudia Mahnke, Frank ... |
Joseph Haydn
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Lo Speziale
Price: £12.99 (Including VAT) Joseph Haydn Comic Opera in Three Acts Cast: Riccardo Castagnole, Antonella ... |
Hans Werner Henze
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Boulevard Soliture
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Hans Werner Henze. Cast: Laura Aikin, Pär Lindskog, Tom Fox, ... |
Der Prinz von Homburg
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Hans Werner Henze. Cast: William Cochran, Helga Dernesch, Marianne Haggander. ... |
L'Upupa
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Hans Werner Henze. Cast: Laura Aikin, John Mark, Ainsley, Alfred Muff, ... |
Victor Herbert
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Naughty Marietta
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Victor Herbert. [Operetta.] Cast: Patrice Munsel, Alfred Drake, John Conte, Gale ... |
Paul Hindemith
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Cardillac
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Paul Hindemith. Cast: Donald McIntyre, Maria de Francesca-Cavazza, Robert Schunk, ... |
Cardillac
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Paul Hindemith. Cast: Alan Held, Angela Denoke, Christopher Ventris, Hannah ... |
Engelbert Humperdinck
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Hänsel und Gretel
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Engelbert Humperdinck. Cast: Alfred Muff, Gabriele Lechner, Liliana Nikiteanu, Malin Hartelius ... |
Hänsel und Gretel
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Engelbert Humperdinck. Cast: Brigitte Fassbaender, Edita Gruberova, Hermann Prey, Helga Dernesch, ... |
Hänsel und Gretel
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Engelbert Humperdinck. Cast: Antigone Papoulkas, Anna Gabler, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Irmgard ... |
Leos Janacek
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The Cunning Little Vixen
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Leos Janácek Cast: Thomas Allen, Eva Jenis, Hana Minutillo, Libuse Marova, ... |
The Cunning Little Vixen
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Leos Janacek. The animated film of Janacek's opera Janacek's opera, inspired ... |
The Cunning Little Vixen
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Leos Janacek. (Das Schlaue Fuchslein) NB: This performance is sung in ... |
From the house of the dead
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Leos Janácek. Cast: Olaf Bär, Eric Stoklossa, Stefan Margita, Peter Straka, ... |
Jenufa
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Leos Janacek. Cast Includes: Roberta Alexander, Anja Silja, Philip Langridge, Mark ... |
Kata Kabanova
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Leos Janacek Cast Includes: Nancy Gustafson, Felicity Palmer, Ryland Davies, Barry ... |
Katia Kabanova
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Leos Janacek Based on 'The Storm' by A N Ostrowskij ... |
The Makropulos Case
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Leos Janacek Glyndebourne Festival Opera Cast: Anja Silja, Kim Begley, Victor ... |
Emmerich Kálmán
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Die Csárdásfurstin
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Emmerich Kálmán. A critically acclaimed film version of the sweet-and-spicy operetta ... |
The Gypsy Princess
Price: £16.99 (Including VAT) Emmerich Kálmán. Operetta. Cast: Deborah Riedel, Anson Austin, Roger Lemke, Roxane ... |
Die Herzogin von Chicago
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Emmerich Kálmán. Operetta. [The Duchess of Chicago] Cast: Peter Matic, Mehrzad ... |
Wilhelm Kienzl
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Der Evangelimann
Price: £17.99 (Including VAT) Wilhelm Kienzl. Cast: Walter Fink, Alexandra Reinprecht, Janina Baechle, Wolfgang ... |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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Die Tote Stadt
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Erich Wolfgang Korngold Cast: Angela Denoke, Torsten Kerl, Yuri Batukov, Britta ... |
Rued Langgaard
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Antikrist
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Rued Langgaard Cast: Sten Byriel, Anne Margrethe Dahl, Helene Gjerris, Poul ... |
Franz Lehar
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The Count of Luxemberg
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Franz Lehar Der Graf von Luxemberg Cast:Bo Skovhus, Juliane Banse, Rainer ... |
The Merry Widow
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Franz Lehar Cast: Yvonne Kenny, Bo Skovhus, Angelika Kirchschlager, Gregory Turay ... |
The Merry Widow
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Franz Lehár (Die Lustige Witwe) Cast: Dagmar Schellenberger, Rodney Gilfry, Ute ... |
Ruggero Leoncavallo
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I Pagliacci
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Ruggero Leoncavallo. [The Clowns] Cast: Mafalda Micheluzzi, Franco Corelli, Tito Gobbi, ... |
Pagliacci
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Ruggiero Leoncavallo. [The Clowns] Cast: Roberto Alagna, Svetla Vassileva, Alberto ... |
Pagliacci
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Ruggiero Leoncavallo. [The Clowns] Cast: Mario Del Monaco, Gabriella Tucci, ... |
Pagliacci & Cavalleria rusticana
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Ruggiero Leoncavallo - Pagliacci. [The Clowns & Rustic Chivalry] Cast: ... |
Pagliacci & Cavalleria rusticana
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Pietro Mascagni & Ruggero Leoncavallo. [The Clowns & Rustic Chivalry] Cavalleria ... |
Pagliacci & Cavalleria rusticana
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Ruggero Leoncavallo / Pietro Mascagni. Pagliacci [The Clowns] Cast: Fiorenza ... |
Pagliacci & Il Tabarro
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Ruggiero Leoncavallo. [The Clowns] Pagliacci Cast: Luciano Pavarotti, Teresa Stratas, Juan ... |
Pavarotti - The Italian Opera Collection
Price: £39.99 (Including VAT) Pavarotti at the Met in three of his greatest roles. Giacomo ... |
Albert Lortzing
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Zar und Zimmermann
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Albert Lortzing. Cast: Raymond Wolansky, Peter Haage, Hans Sotin, Lucia Popp, ... |
Jean - Baptiste Lully
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Persee
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Jean - Baptiste Lully Cast: Cyril Auvity, Marie Lenormand, Stephanie ... |
