DVD Studio Pro - SPRM 20: Player Region Code

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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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Chapter 20

Creating Scripts

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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

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