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Hollywood decided in the early stages of the DVD format, that the staggered release of movies throughout the world should be applied to this new format, for both financial and political reasons. Hence North America was designated as Region 1, Europe and Japan as Region 2 and so on ...

Consequently they forced the manufacturers to abide by this and so a DVD player bought in the UK (region 2) will only play discs which are designated region 2, typically marked on the disc and packaging, thus ...

The apparent result of this of course is that our friends over the pond get to watch the movies earlier, but also because Region 1 has had a 12 month headstart on region 2, the discs are of a much higher quality, cheaper and there is a far larger selection. This inconsistency fuelled the market for Multi-Region Players, players that will allow the playback of discs bought anywhere in the World, putting back the choice and control back into the consumer's hands.

We only offer multi-region DVD players - look for this symbol ...