SPRM 20: Player Region Code
In order to have some control over which parts of the world can play a disc, a regional
coding system was developed. With this system, all standalone DVD players are
manufactured to support a single region, and DVD players used by computers have a
setting that configures the player’s region (with a limited number of changes allowed).
This SPRM returns the value of the DVD player’s region code.
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The globe is divided into eight sections:
• Region 1: Canada, United States, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, the Virgin Islands, and some
islands
• Region 2: Japan, Western Europe (including Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Balkans),
South Africa, Turkey, and the Middle East (including Iran and Egypt)
• Region 3: Southeast Asia (including Indonesia, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Macao)
• Region 4: Australia, New Zealand, South America, most of Central America, Papua New
Guinea, and most of the South Pacific
• Region 5: Most of Africa, Russia (and former Russian states), Mongolia, Afghanistan,
Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and North Korea
• Region 6: China and Tibet
• Region 7: (Reserved)
• Region 8: Airlines, cruise ships, and other types of transportation
Here is a table of regions and values for SPRM 20:
SPRM 20 value
Region
1
1
2
2
4
3
8
4
16
5
32
6
64
7
128
8