Regional lockout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A regional lockout (or region coding) is a class of digital restrictions management preventing the use of a certain product or service, such as multimedia or a hardware device, outside of a certain region or territory. A regional lockout may be enforced through physical means, through technological means such as detecting the user's IP address or using an identifying code, or through unintentional means introduced by devices only supporting certain regional technologies (such as video formats, i. NTSC and PAL). A regional lockout may be enforced for several reasons, such as to stagger the release of a certain product, to hinder grey market imports by enforcing price discrimination, or to prevent users from accessing certain content in their territory because of legal reasons (either due to censorship laws, or because a distributor does not have the rights to certain intellectual property outside of their specified region). Multimedia[edit]Disc Regions[edit]The DVD, Blu- ray Disc, and UMD media formats all support the use of region coding; DVDs use 8 region codes (Region 7 is reserved for future use; Region 8 is used for "international venues," such as airplanes and cruise ships), and Blu- ray Discs use 3 region codes corresponding to different areas of the world. Currently, most Blu- ray discs are region- free. On computers, the DVD region can usually be changed five times. Windows uses three region counters: its own one, the one of the DVD drive, and the one of the player software (occasionally, the player software has no region counter of its own, but uses that of Windows). The Cobra USB is able to play blu-ray movies from any region. The Ps3 without the Cobra dongle inserted will act as a normal PS3, and play Blu Rays from your region. The region code is stored in a file and/or the registry, and there are hacks to reset the region counter of the player software. In stand-alone players, the region code is part of the firmware. In addition, downloadable content for the PlayStation 3 systems is region-matched with the game, so you need to buy DLC from US PlayStation Store to use it in a US game. Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is able to bypass/hack blu-ray, and make your PS3/ PS3 Slim play all region blu-ray discs, including Region A, Region B and Region C. Michael November 17, 2013. Hi, So i just downloaded ps3 media server. How do i use it. I would like to watch movies but don’t know the region codes hence the reason i downloaded ps3 media server but don’t know how to use it and make the dvd video watchable on my ps3. Does anyone know how I can get my American Playstation 3 to play European Blu Ray disks? As with most DVD players I presumed you could get a hack code off the internet but I cant find one anywhere. Can I get my machine chipped? Please please help me!!!! PS3 player is perfect to play Blu-ray disc for its high quality display. To play all Blu-rays, just update its firmware to make it a region free PS3 player. After the fifth region change, the system is locked to that region. In modern DVD drives (type RPC- 2), the region lock is saved to its hardware, so that even reinstalling Windows or using the drive with a different computer will not unlock the drive again. Unlike DVD regions, Blu- ray regions are verified only by the player software, not by the computer system or the drive. The region code is stored in a file and/or the registry, and there are hacks to reset the region counter of the player software. In stand- alone players, the region code is part of the firmware. For bypassing region codes, there are software and multi- regional players available. A new form of Blu- ray region coding tests not only the region of the player/player software, but also its country code. This means, for example, although both USA and Japan are Region A, some American discs will not play on devices/software installed in Japan or vice versa, since the two countries have different country codes (the United States has 2. Hex 5. 55. 3, and Japan has 1. Hex 4a. 50; Canada has 1. Hex 4. 34. 1). Any DVD- HD 7. Hex FFFFFFFF. The software developers say users can also change the country code in the registry value "bd. Country. Code" themselves. Before the change of the value, Any. DVD must be closed, and after changing, it must be restarted.)Software[edit]Some features of certain programs are/were disabled if the software is/was installed on a computer in a certain region. PS3 Region Free DVD Playback – 04-25-2011, 07:56 AM. My google search was xregistry.sys ps3 dvd region hack. I figured somewhere in there that had to be talking about xregistry.sys so maybe there was an answer. code is On; code is On; HTML code is Off; Trackbacks are Off; Pingbacks are Off; Refbacks are On; Forum Rules. Ad. Subscribe. Would you like to get all the new info from. For PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation 3, a GameFAQs Answers question titled 'Is the PS3 region free?'. Would it be possible to make the PS3 DVD region-free via a firmware upgrade? If so, I would like Sony to do it. The original idea behind region. DVD Hacks > Sony Playstation 3 region code. Help us keep the list up to date and Submit new DVD and Blu-ray Players here. This list is based from user reports and we have not verified or tested any region codes. Use them at your own risk. What are Blu-ray and DVD region codes, country codes, multi-region or zone locks? Read DVD Player. In older versions of the copy software "Clone. CD," the features "Amplify Weak Sectors," "Protected PC Games," and "Hide CDR Media" were disabled in the United States of America and Japan. Changing the region and language settings in Windows (e. Canadian English) and/or patches could unlock these features in the two countries. Sly. Soft decided to leave these options disabled for the USA for legal reasons, but, strangely enough, in the program "Any. DVD," which is also illegal according to US law, no features were disabled. The current version of Clone. CD (5. 3. 1. 4) is not region- restricted anymore. The newer versions of the copy software "DVDFab" (9. US version (no Blu- ray- ripping feature), which is downloaded if the homepage dvdfab. US IP address, and a non- US version (with working Blu- ray- ripping feature). Some webpages allow the download of the non- US version also from the US (They store the non- US version directly and do not use download links to the developer's homepage). Some programs, e. NTSC and PAL computers. In some cases, to avoid grey market imports or international software piracy, they are/were designed not to run on a computer with the "wrong" TV system. Other programs can run on computers with both TV systems. Kaspersky Lab sells its anti- virus products at different prices in different regions and uses regionalized activation codes. A program bought in a country of a region can be activated in another country of the same region. Once activated, the software can also be used in and download updates from other regions as long as the license is valid. Problems may arise when the license must be renewed, or if the software must be reinstalled, in a region other than the one where it was bought. The region is identified by the IP address (there is no activation possible without Internet connection), so the use of VPN or a proxy is recommended to circumvent the restriction. The Kaspersky regions are: Region 1: Americas. Region 2: Western Europe and Israel. Region 3: Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia) and Turkey. Region 4: Near East and Africa. Region 5: Asia and Pacific region. Websites[edit]Main article: Geo- blocking. On the internet, geo- blocking is used primarily to control access to online media content that is only licensed for playback in a certain region due to territorial licensing arrangements.[1]Video games[edit]Regional lockouts in video games have been achieved by several methods, such as hardware/software authentication, slot pin- out change, differences in cartridge cases, IP blocking and online software patching. Most consolevideo games have region encoding. The main regions are: Nintendo[edit]Nintendo was the first console maker to introduce regional locks to its consoles. Games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) were locked through both physical and technical means; the design of cartridges for the NES differed between Japan and other markets, using a different number of pins. As the Famicom (the Japanese model) used slightly smaller cartridges, Japanese games could not fit into NES consoles without an adapter (and even with that, they could still not use the extra sound functionalities of the Famicom due to their differing hardware). Additionally, the NES also contained the 1. NES authentication chip; the chip was coded for one of three regions: A game's region is recognized by the console using the 1. NES chip. If the chip inside the cartridge conflicts with the chip inside the console, the game will not boot. The 1. 0NES chip also doubled as a form of DRM to prevent unlicensed or bootleg games to play on the NES. The redesigned NES console released in the 1. NES chip, and can play PAL games, although Famicom games still need a converter. The Famicom does not include a 1. NES chip, but is still unable to play imports due to the aforementioned size difference. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and the Super Famicom use differences in cartridge cases. A Super NES cartridge will not fit in a Super Famicom/PAL SNES slot due to its different shape and two pieces of plastic in the SNES slot prevent Super Famicom cartridges from being inserted in the SNES (both PAL and NTSC). PAL SNES carts can be fully inserted in both Japanese and American consoles, but a similar chip to the 1. NES, called CIC, prevents PAL games to be played in NTSC consoles. While physical modification of the cases (either console or cartridges) is needed to play games from the different regions, in order to play games of different TV systems, a hardware modification is also needed. Regional- locks could be bypassed using special unlicensed cartridge adapters such as Game Genie. The Nintendo 6. 4 features similar lockout methods as the Super NES. The Game. Cube, and Wii are all region- locked. The regions are: NTSC- U (North America, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines)PAL (Europe and Oceania)NTSC- J (Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan)NTSC- K (South Korea)The Game. Cube and Wii's regional lockout can be bypassed either by console modification (the Wii also through BIOS hacking), or simply by third party software. Datel's Free. Loader or Action Replay discs are most notable. The Game Boy and Nintendo DS product lines do not use regional lockouts for physically distributed games; however, software specific to the Nintendo DSi are region- locked, and cartridges released by i. Que in China can only be played on DS models produced by i. Que (although they remain compatible with other DS cartridges). The Nintendo 3. DS line however, does enforce region locking for 3. DS- specific software,[2] with the exception of Nintendo 3. DS Guide: Louvre, which is region- free. The Wii U and the Wii U Game. Pad are also region- locked.[3][4]The Play. Station and Play. Station 2 consoles are region- locked. All Play. Station 3 games, except for one, are region free.[5][6] Even though publishers could choose to region- lock specific games based on a mechanism that allows for the game to query the model of the PS3, none did so during the first six years after the launch of PS3.[7] The first game to be region- locked on the PS3 is Persona 4 Arena; [8] publisher Atlus declined to reverse its decision despite substantial outcry by some of their fanbase. The decision was made to avoid excessive importing, because all versions of the game share the same features and language support, but have differing price points and release dates in each region. They did, however, decide not to apply region- locking to its sequel.[9]Way of the Samurai 3 is also region- locked but only on Slim models. There is region locking for backwards- compatible Play. Station and Play. Station 2 games, as well as DVD and Blu- ray Disc movies. Additionally, some games separate online players per region, such as Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
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