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Although there are only three Blu-ray regions, the country code allows much more precise control of the regional distribution of Blu-ray discs than the six (or eight) DVD regions. In Blu-ray discs, there are not any "special regions" like the regions 7 and 8 in DVDs. Ultra HD (4K) Blu-Ray discs are region-free as they're generally encoded as ...
With Blu-ray Discs, there are no "special regions" such as the regions 7 and 8 for DVDs. In circumvention of region-coding restrictions, stand-alone Blu-ray Disc players are sometimes modified by third parties to allow for playback of Blu-ray Discs (and DVDs) with any region code. [219] Instructions ("hacks") describing how to reset the Blu-ray ...
The DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and UMD media formats all support the use of region coding; DVDs use eight 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 three region codes corresponding to different areas of the world. Most Blu-rays, however, are ...
The Blu-ray specification and all currently available players support region coding. As of July 2008 about 66.7% of Blu-ray Disc titles are region-free and 33.3% use region codes. [6] The HD DVD specification had no region coding, so a HD DVD from anywhere in the world will work in any player.
English: Regions of the world for the Blu-ray standard. * Region A/1 (yellow): Americas (excluding Greenland), East Asia (excluding mainland China), Southeast Asia, Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand)
Ultra HD Blu-ray (4K Ultra HD, UHD-BD, or 4K Blu-ray) [2] [3] is a digital optical disc data storage format that is an enhanced variant of Blu-ray. [4] Ultra HD Blu-ray supports 4K UHD (3840 × 2160 pixel resolution) video at frame rates up to 60 progressive frames per second, [ 4 ] encoded using High-Efficiency Video Coding . [ 4 ]
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Star Trek: The Next Generation was the only such show that had a Blu-ray release, as prints were re-scanned and edited from the ground up. [ 99 ] By the beginning of the 2020s, sales of DVD had dropped 86% with respect to the peak of DVD sales around 2005, while on-demand sales and, overall, subscription streaming of TV shows and movies grew by ...