Best DVD Players For All Regions

By Krishna Pérmi . Last updated Dec 17, 2013.

The playable content such as movies and games are subject to digital rights and to manage them, the authorized content distributors control aspects such as release, release date, and price, according to the region.

To demarcate the availability of the content, DVDs are sometimes encoded to be played in specific regions. Such DVDs have region codes and the content can be accessed only on those compatible players. DVDs and the players may be marked with a code (single region), a combination of codes (multi-region), every code (all region) or no codes (region free).

Some of the DVD players are region-free and can play any type of disc ignoring the region codes.

The best DVD players for all regions play the discs that bear region 0 symbol and this means that you can access the disc contents limited to any region in the world.

Some of the best region-free DVDs can be bought from brands such as Toshiba, Sony and Philips for mostly under the $150 price range.

Check out more information about region codes at the footer below.

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Sony BDP-S5100

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	Sony BDP-S5100	Panasonic DMP-BDT500	Philips BDP2185	Sony BDP-S790	LG BP620


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Release Date	Jan 2013	May 2012	Mar 2013	Jan 2012	Mar 2012
Region Code	0, A, B, C	0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, B, C	0, A, B, C	0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, B, C	0, A, B, C
DVD Type	Blu-Ray Player	Blu-ray Player	Blu-Ray Player	Blu-ray Player	Blu-ray Player
Playable Disk Types	HD DVD, DVD+R, SACD, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL, BD-RE DL, CD-R, DVD, CD-DA, Blu-ray Disc, DVD+RW, DVD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW	DVD Video, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R DL, Blu-ray 3D	DVD+R, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE, CD-R, DVD, CD, CD-DA, Video CD, DVD+RW, DVD-R, SVCD, DVD-RW, CD-RW	DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, BD-RE, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, BD-R	DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, CD-R, CD-RW, BD-RE, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, BD-R
Playable File Formats	Dolby Digital, FLAC, LPCM, AAC, MP3, WMA9, MPO, JPEG, GIF, PNG, XVID, Motion JPEG, VC1, MPEG-4, MPEG-1, AVCHD, WMV9, MPEG-2	MPEG2, DivX, MP3, JPEG, MPO	aac, mka, mp3, wma, GIF, JPEG, JPG, avi, divx, m2ts, mkv, mp4, mpeg, mpg	MPEG2, MP3, JPEG	MPEG2, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, AVI, WMV, AAC
Number of Discs	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
DLNA Certified	DLNA Certified
	Image quality is mostly excellent, even with streaming content CNet.com s21.com whathifi.com	Excellent feature list TrustedReviews.com whathifi.com		Generous feature list TrustedReviews.com	Built-in Wi-Fi, 3D compatibility CNet.com

Region code	Region
0	Region Free (discs that bear the region 0 symbol either have no flag set or have regions 1 to 6 flags set)
1	United States, Canada, Bermuda, Caribbean, U.S. territories
2	Europe, Middle East, Egypt, Japan, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Greenland, French Overseas departments and territories
3	Southeast Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau
4	South America, Central America, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea and much of Oceania
5	Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Africa (except Egypt, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho), Central Asia, Mongolia, North Korea
6	China
ALL	Played in any location, on any player

Best DVD Players For All Regions

Sony BDP-S5100

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