[Official Message] 『ayumi hamasaki Rock'n'Roll Circus Tour FINAL ～7days Special～』DVD/Blu-ray！

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Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

Woh, woh, woh.. i was looking at the cdjapan website and it says that the Rock n Roll blu-ray is region free.. is that right?? will it play on any blu-ray player including playstation 3??

Maybe any Blu-ray player will do. I know that Japan is in the same region as the USA and Canada, so any Blu-ray player for Japan, USA and Canada are OK, but I'm not sure for Europe...

When it comes out, for anyone in Europe with a Blu-ray player, could someone test it out to make sure that it's compatible? And for Americans (or Canadians), another person living there?

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Oh, really?? I didn't know Japanese blu-rays could be played on American players.. good to know!

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Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

Oh, really?? I didn't know Japanese blu-rays could be played on American players.. good to know!

Well...here's how: like DVDs, Blu-ray discs also have their own region codes, but how they coded seems to be an advantage compared to DVDs, when in America the region was region 1, while in Japan, it was region 2.

Here are the three regions: (map reference: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...s_with_key.png)

• Region A/1: The Americas (except Greenland; this means it includes the USA, Canada and Mexico, as well as the rest of North and South America), and their dependencies, East Asia (except mainland China and Mongolia; this means it includes Japan), and Southeast Asia.
• Region B/2: Africa, Middle East, Southwest Asia, Europe (except Belarus, Russia and Ukraine), Australia, New Zealand, and their dependencies.
• Region C/3: Central Asia, East Asia (mainland China and Mongolia only), South Asia, Eastern Europe, and their dependencies.