 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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Orazio Vecchi
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L'Amfiparnaso
Price: £16.99 (Including VAT) Orazio Vecchi Premiere recording on DVD 'L'Amfiparnaso' (1597) (The Twin Peaks ... |
Giuseppe Verdi
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Pavarotti sings Verdi
Price: £39.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Ernani - Un ballo in maschera - Il trovatore. ... |
Aida
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Daniela Dessi, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Fabio Armiliato, Juan ... |
Aida
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Young singers in a fully staged production by ... |
Aida
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Dimitri Kavrakos, Dolora Zajick, Aprile Millo, Placido ... |
Aida
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi . Cast: Maria Chiara, Luciano Pavarotti, Ghena Dimitrova, Nicolai ... |
Aida
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Margaret Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Simon Estes, Stefania ... |
Aida
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Leyla Gencer, Carlo Bergonzi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Bonaldo ... |
Aida
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Maria Chiara, Fiorenza Cossotto, Nicola Martinucci, Giuseppe Scandola, ... |
Aida
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Norma Fantini, Marco Berti, Ildiko Komlosi, Mark Doss, ... |
Aida
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Maria Chiara, Carlo Striuli, Dolora Zajick, Kristján Jóhannsson, ... |
Aida
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Nina Stemme, Luciana D'Intino, Salvatore Licitra, Juan Pons, ... |
Aida
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Marco Spotti, Ildiko Komlosi, Violeta Urmana, Roberto Alagna, ... |
Aida Concert
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Herva Nelli, Eva Gustavson, Richard Tucker, Giuseppe Valdengo, ... |
Aroldo
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Gustavo Porta, Adriana Damato, Franco Vassallo, Enrico Giuseppe ... |
Attila
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Samuel Ramey, Cheryl Studer, Giorgio Zancanaro, Kaludi ... |
Attila
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Evgeny Nesterenko, Silvano Carroli, Maria Chiara, Veriano Luchetti, ... |
Un ballo in Maschera
Price: £27.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Aprile Millo, Florence ... |
Un ballo in maschera
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast:Placido Domingo, Josephine Barstow, Florence Quivar, Sumi Jo, Leo ... |
Un ballo in maschera
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Massimiliano Pisapia, Frnaco Vassallo, Chiara Taigi, Anna Maria ... |
Un ballo in maschera
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Luciano Pavarotti, Katia Ricciarelli, Judith Blegen, Bianca ... |
La Battaglia di Legnano
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast:Cesar Hernandez, Giorgio Cebrian, Elisabette Matos, Manrice Signorini, Francesco ... |
Don Carlo
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, Daniela Dessi, Paolo Coni, ... |
Don Carlo
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Robert Lloyd, Rolando Villazón, Amanda Roocroft, Dwayne Croft, ... |
Don Carlo
Price: £14.99 (Including VAT) ON SALE Was £19.99 Now £14.99. Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Luis Lima, ... |
Don Carlo
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Grace Bumbry, Louis Quilico, ... |
Don Carlos
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila, Jose Van ... |
Don Carlos
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Alastair Miles, Ramón Vargas, Bo Skovhus, Simon Yang, ... |
Ernani
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Renato Bruson, Nicolai Ghiaurov ... |
Ernani
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Marco Berti, Susan Neves, Giacomo Prestia, Carlo Guelfi, ... |
Ernani
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Ruggero Raimondi, Leona Mitchell, ... |
I Due Foscari
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Leo Nucci, Vincenzo La Scola, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, ... |
I Due Foscari
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Renato Bruson, Alberto Cupido, Linda Roark-Strummer, Luigi Roni, ... |
I Lombardi
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Jose Carreras, Ghena Dimitrova, Silvano Carroli, Carlo ... |
Falstaff
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) A Royal Opera House Production Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Bryn Terfel, Roberto ... |
Falstaff
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) A Royal Opera House Production. Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Renato Bruson, William ... |
Falstaff
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Ambrogio Maestri, Roberto Frontali, Juan Diego Florez, Ernesto ... |
Falstaff
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Willard White, Wolfgang Ablinger- Sperrhacke, Santiago Sanchez Jerico, ... |
Falstaff
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Jose Van Dam, William Stone, Barbara Madra, Livia ... |
Falstaff
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Glyndebourne Festival Opera Cast: Donald Gramm, Benjamin Luxon, Kay ... |
Falstaff
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Gabriel Bacquier, Richard Stilwell, Max-René Cosotti, John Lanigan, ... |
Falstaff
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Giuseppe Taddei, Scipione Colombo, Luigi Alva, Mario Carlin, ... |
Falstaff
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Ruggero Raimondi, Manuel Lanza, Daniil Shtoda, Carlo Bosi, ... |
La forza del destino
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. [The Force of Destiny] Cast: Galina Gorchakova, Nikolai Putilin, ... |
La forza del destino
Price: £27.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. [The Force of Destiny] Cast: Giorgio Algorta, Renata Tebaldi, ... |
La forza del destino
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. [The Force of Destiny] Cast: Richard Vernon, Leontyne Price, ... |
La forza del destino
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. [The Force of Destiny] Cast: Susanna Branchini, Renzo Zulian, ... |
Giovanna D'Arco
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Renato Bruson, Susan Dunn, Vincenzo La Scola, Pierre ... |
Jerusalem
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Ivan Momirov, Veronica Villarroel, ... |
Luisa Miller
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi [*First release in any format] Cast: Bonaldo Giaiotti, Plácido ... |
Macbeth
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Goetz Rose, David Griffith, Renato Bruson, Maria ... |
Macbeth
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Thomas Hampson, Paoletta Marrocu, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Luis ... |
Macbeth
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Kostas Paskalis, Josephine Barstow, James Morris, Keith ... |
Macbeth
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Carlos Álvarez, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Maria Guleghina, Begona Alberdi, ... |
Macbeth
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Leo Nucci, Sylvie Valayre, Enrico Iori, Roberto Iulianom, ... |
Macbeth
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Award-winning 1987 feature film. Macbeth: Leo Nucci, Banco: Samuel ... |
Nabucco
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Renato Bruson, Ghena Dimitrova, Paata Burchuladze, Bruno ... |
Nabucco
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Alberto Gazale, Susan Neves, Orlin Anastassov, Yasuharu ... |
Nabucco
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Juan Pons, Maria Guleghina, Samuel Raney, Wendy ... |
Nabucco
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Renato Bruson, Ghena Dimiter Petkov, Bruna Baglioni, Ottavio ... |
Nabucco
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Ambrogio Maestri, Andrea Gruber, Paata Burchuladze, Nazzareno Antinori, ... |
Nabucco
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Leo Nucci, Miroslav Dvorsky, Giacomo Prestia, Maria Guleghina, ... |
Nabucco
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. The Open Air Event from the Festival St.Margarethen. Cast: ... |
Nabucco
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Leo Nucci, Fabio Sartori, Carlo Colombara, Maria ... |
Nabucco
Price: £16.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Jonathan Summers, Elizabeth Connell, Bruce Martin. Opera ... |
Oberto
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio. Cast: Ildar Abdrazakov, Evelyn ... |
Otello
Price: £15.99 (Including VAT) A Royal Opera House Production. Cast: Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, ... |
Otello
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Cast: Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Peter Glossop, Stefania Malagú, Aldo Bottion, ... |
Otello
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, James Morris, Jane ... |
Otello
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Placido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Cesare Catani, Antonello ... |
Otello
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Christian Franz, Valeri Alexejev, Andreas Schmidt, Emily ... |
Otello
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Mario Del Monaco, Renato Capechi, Gino Mattera, ... |
Otello
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Vladimir Atlantov, Kiri Te Kanawa, Piero Cappuccilli, Antonio ... |
Otello
Price: £32.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: José Cura, Krassimira Stoyanova, Lado Ataneli, Vittorio Grigolo, ... |
Otello
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Wolfgang Windgassen, Sena Jurinac, Norman Mittelmann, ... |
Otello
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Mario Del Monaco, Gabriella Tucci, Tito Gobbi, Anna ... |
Rigoletto
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) A Royal Opera House Production Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Marcelo Alvarez, Peter ... |
Rigoletto
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Placido Domingo, Cornell Macneil, Ileana Cotrubas, Justino Diaz, ... |
Rigoletto
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Alfredo Kraus, Leo Nucci, Luciana Serra, Michele Pertusi, ... |
Rigoletto
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Luciano Pavarotti, Ingvar Wixell, Edita Gruberova, Ferruccio Furlanetto, ... |
Rigoletto
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Marcelo Álvarez, Carlos Álvarez, Inva Mula, Julian Konstantinov, ... |
Rigoletto
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Piotr Beczala, Leo Nucci, Elena Mosuc, László Polgár, ... |
Stiffelio
Price: £15.99 (Including VAT) A Royal Opera House Production. Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Gwynne Howell, José ... |
Simon Boccanegra
Price: £27.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Vladimir Chernov, Kiri Te Kanawa, Robert LLoyd, Placido ... |
Simon Boccanegra
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Carlo Guelfi, Julian Konstantinov, Karit Mattila, Vincenzo La ... |
Simon Boccanegra
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Cast: Peter Sidhom, Daniel Borowski, Giancarlo ... |
Simon Boccanegra
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Thomas Hampson, Cristina Gallardo - Domâs, Ferruccio Furlanetto, ... |
Simon Boccanegra
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. A Royal Opera House Production. Cast: Alexandru Agache, Kiri ... |
Simon Boccanegra
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Sherrill Milnes, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Paul Plishka, Vasile ... |
La Traviata
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) A Royal Opera House Production. Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Angela Gheorghiu, Frank ... |
La Traviata
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Edita Gruberova, Neil Shicoff, Giorgio Zancanaro Orchestra ... |
La Traviata
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi, Mafalda Micheluzzi ... |
La Traviata
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Beverly Sills, Henry Price, Richard Fredricks, Fredda Rakusin, ... |
La Traviata
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Cast: Marie Mc Laughlin, Walter ... |
La Traviata
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Stefania Bonfadelli, Annely Peebo, Paola Leveroni, Scott Piper, ... |
La Traviata
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Mireille Delunsch, Matthew Polenzani, Zeljko Lucic Orchestre ... |
La Traviata
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Eva Mei, Thomas Hampson, Piotr Beczala Orchestra of ... |
La Traviata
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Norah Amsellem, Itxaro Mentxaka, María Espada, José Bros, ... |
La Traviata
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Netrebko, Villazón, Hampson, Schneiderman, Pilcher . Wiener Philharmoniker, ... |
La Traviata
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Teresa Stratas, Axelle Gall, Pina Cei, Plácido ... |
La Traviata
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. Cast: Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Renato Bruson. Los ... |
Il Trovatore
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) A Royal Opera House Production Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Jose Cura, ... |
Il Trovatore
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Joan Sutherland, Lauris Elms, Kenneth Collins, ... |
Il Trovatore
Price: £33.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Raina Kabaivanska, Fiorenza Cossotto, Placido Domingo, ... |
Il Trovatore
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Sherrill Milnes, Eva Marton, Dolora Zajick, Luciano Pavarotti, ... |
Il Trovatore
Price: £27.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Mario Del Monaco, Leyla Gencer, Ettore Bastianini, Fedora ... |
Il Trovatore
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Giorgio Zancanaro, Rosalind Plowright, Fiorenza Cossotto, Franco Bonisolli, ... |
Il Trovatore
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Leo Nucci, Dimitra Theodossiou, Mariana Pentcheva, Miroslav Dvorsky, ... |
I vespri Siciliani
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Giorgio Zancanaro, Enzo Capuano, Chris Merritt, Cheryl Studer ... |
I vespri Siciliani
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi Cast: Susan Dunn, Leo Nucci, Veriano Luchetti, Bonaldo Giaiotti, ... |
I vespri Siciliani
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Giuseppe Verdi. [The Sicilian Vespers] Cast: Valdimir Stoyanov, Cesare Lana, Lorenzo ... |
Richard Wagner
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Der Fliegende Hollander
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner Cast: Matti Salminen, Lisbeth Balslev, Robert Schunk, Anny Schlemm, ... |
Der Fliegende Hollander
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner Cast: Bengt Rundgren, Catarina Ligendza, Hermann Winkler, Ruth Hesse, ... |
Gotterdammerung
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner Cast: Albert Bonnema, Hernan Iturralde, Franz-Josef Kapellmann, Roland Bracht, ... |
Gotterdammerung
Price: £35.00 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner Cast: John Treleaven, Falk Struckmann, Gunter von Kannen, Matti ... |
Gotterdammerung
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner Cast: Heinz Kruse, Wolfgang Schone, Henk Smit, Kurt Ryll, ... |
Gotterdammerung
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner Cast: Siegfrried Jerusalem, Bodo Brinkmann, Philip Kang, Gunter von ... |
Gotterdammerung
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner. Cast: Wolfgang Schmidt, Falk Struckmann, Eric Halfvarson, Ekkehard Wlaschina, ... |
Lohengrin
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner Cast: Placido Domingo, Robert Lloyd, Cheryl Studer, Hartmut Welker, ... |
Lohengrin
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner Cast: John Macurdy, Peter Hofmann, Eva Marton, Leif Roar, ... |
Lohengrin
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner Cast: Siegfried Vogel, Peter Hofmann, Karan Armstrong, Leif Roar, ... |
Lohengrin
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner Cast: Klaus Florian Vogt, Solveig Kringelborn, Hans-Peter Konig, Waltraud ... |
Lohengrin
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Richard Wagner. Cast: Manfred Schenk, Paul Frey, Cheryl Studer, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, ... |
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