New Region Coding.

http://gamersreports.com/news/705/

"Region 1: North America, South America, East Asia except for China (India, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia etc.)
Region 2: Europe and Africa
Region 3: China, Russia and other countries"

I love it.

 

I bloody don't. This is for Blu-ray BTW

It's odd, this lumps malaysia and east asia etc. where piracy is rampant, in with the US and Japan...I'd expect that they would have been with Region 3.

The US, Japan and Europe should all be one region IMO. At least Europe and Canada, since you get bothe English and french in both...

 

region coding is such bullshit in a supposed world market. Thank god that PAL televisions can handle NTSC, ill just import an US unit to play Blu-Ray movies, probably be cheaper than buying one here anyway.

 

I saw it earlier, and when I look at it, I wonder if Australia considered Europe now or if it is "other"

 

Well it's PAL so... Countries in the Middle-East region are likely to become Region 2 as well, as they are also PAL (and the region falls under SCEE for example). It's not a small region, but of course it is far more attractive to have both North America and Japan, than just Europe alone. I'll just get 2 PS3's then.

 

for what i've read it falls under "other"

 

That's strange. I don't remember if Australia uses PAL (Secam) or NTSC, but they should have been either region 1 or 2. All this PAL-M/N/Secam stuff is all too confusing...

 

They currently have region 4, which is pretty much just themselves and NZ. And yup, they use PAL

Whether the country uses PAL or NTSC is irrelevant anyway with HD, as the only modes supported anywhere in the world are 720p and 1080i and p. Theres 576i/p But thats not an HD Resolution

 

Considering the biggest problem Sony had in the past years trying to outlaw Mod chips was the legitimate use for imports, I was expecting them to drop the whole thing altogether.

 

you forgot latin america and mexico , but dont worry, is just a small part of the world anyone could forget that, is ntsc.

 

Ah yes, sorry about that, forgot those two :lol:

Odd that they are NTSC whereas aus/nz are pal

 

WooHoo!!!!

 

there should be only one region coding - that's region-zero.

 

720p and 1080i may be official ATSC HD resolutions, but they aren't the *only* ones. Japan had analog HD long before the US and elsewhere adopted digital TV standards.

-hl718

 

If Blu-Ray becomes the standard, this would be fantastic.

I could play any Japanese DVD's I want, which would be nice.

 

Well if your going to be that way, then they're the only standards supported by blu-ray :nod:

 

Translates to:

1. NTSC Big bucks class
2. PAL Piss poor sales class
3. Communist class

=/

Nothing wrong with the way it was IMO, infact they should do a single region and do a simultaneous release after it's been translated into all major languages

 

There's still the different framerates derived from mains voltage frequencies though: 25p, 50i and 50p derived from 50Hz (SECAM and most PAL), and 23.976p, 29.97p and 59.94p/i derived from NTSC (kinda 60Hz). Then again it appears both ATSC (the HD system used in the US) and DVB (used nearly everywhere else) can support all these framerates, and hopefully it'll mean us in post-PAL countries won't have to put up with crappy 50Hz conversions again :icon_bigg

Also, I highly question wether these regions are going to be applied to PS3 games. I'll bet Sony will use pretty much the same old NTSC-J/NTSC-U/C/PAL stuff