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Now its just one thing that bothers me, the region coding punga ...... is this feasible for the indian market? what region blu rays are available in india anyone know ?

satish

I had explained about the Blu-Ray region coding system in the following link.

http://www.hifivision.com/surround-a...ice-india.html

India falls in Region C. We are always shunted off to the last row in all international matters, and it is really shame as we are the second largest producer of movies and music in the world. And this really has nothing to do with geography.

Producers are today a confused lot vis-a-vis region coding for Blu-ray. In addition they may want the format to succeed and thus nearly 70% of the BDs released are region free.

All Oppo players, since they are designed in the US will come preset for Region A. Knowing Oppo, I am sure they will provide a simple remote control based methodology to change the region code to anything you want. I don't think that will be an issue. It may even be the same method that are now there for all Oppo players.

BTW, for people in Chennai, Some shops in Burma Bazar are selling authentic looking BDs for between Rs.200 and Rs.250.

Shall some of start a BD distribution system for all members of HiFiVision? . That was just a joke moderator.

Cheers

Any idea when it would be released to the general public instead of just beta testers?

Venkat
I believe bypassing blu ray region coding is not as easy as dvd region coding and you need a mod chip hardware based solution.....

Can you shed some light on this ?

In your thread you say some Panasonic players come blu ray region free?
If a manufacturer is allowed to do this i bet Oppo will not shy away as they supported region free dvd in their old players.

In BD, region codes are controlled in two different ways - one for DB Players and the other for computers.

In BD Players, every BD Disc has a program that is triggered the minute you insert a disc. This checks with the player's region code. As long as the region codes in the disc and the player match, there will no issue. So I believe Oppo will give us a simple way to set and reset the player's region codes to match that of any disc. If a disc does not play the first time, you simply switch the code in the player to match the one in the disc, and reinsert the disc. . Hopefully this can be done ad infinitum.

On computers it works differently and is software based. The playback software manages the region code checking instead of the player. There are software available you can use to set or change the region code up to 5 times after initial configuration.

Yes region free players are available, and I am sure Oppo will also be capable of being made region free.

Let us keep our fingers crossed.

Cheers

thanks venkat great explanation as usual.

Oppo has enough sales around the world including parts of europe all the way to asia and australia. I know australian law mandates region free players.

I have also been following the Oppo BDP thread on avs and some people suggested maybe they would make dvd region free but Blu could be limited to region 1 N. America.

I hope Oppo see this market demand/trend and make a region free blu ray player.

i read in a forum(avs i think) that oppo BD will not be region free... not sure though.

Bad news what we all dreaded ....

Hi,
I just wanted to know whether the blu ray player that Oppo plans to release will it support region free blu ray playback ?
I hope Oppo realizes that you cater to a worldwise market including india, asia, australia, europe so you will not leave us in the dark by releasing a region 1 blu ray player.

Satish,
Our BDP-83 Blu-ray player is being designed for North America, which is DVD Region 1 and Blu-ray Region A compliant. We have no plans selling these units internationally or allowing the end user to adjust any regional controls.

Best Regards,
Customer Service
OPPO Digital, Inc.

Hi,
Does Oppo have any future plans to release another model for international market with region free blu ray later on?

Satish,
OPPO Digital, Inc will be releasing only a North American model. OPPO Europe (OPPO.SE) will likely release an European model which will be DVD Region 2 and Blu-ray Region B compliant.


Best Regards,
Customer Service
OPPO Digital, Inc.

Satish:

Don't be too disheartened by this. That is the official line that Oppo has to take, if they have to avoid facing innumerable legal suits from Hollywood producers. One suit and all their plans could be jeopardized. There will be some idiot somewhere looking for a chance to pounce on Oppo since they are doing well.

If you look at the website, nowhere will it say that the 980, 981 or 983 can be made region free.

I had also written to Oppo when I was buying the 983. They did the same and wrote back to me saying no. By the time I had already placed the order and was dreading if I had just thrown away 400 odd dollars.

I then called the sales guys over phone, and asked them if the same codes that were there for 980 and 981 for making the player region free will work for 983 also. He said, 'Please don't quote me but it will.'

I will not be too surprised if the same codes work for the BD player also. Just wait till it is released, and I am sure the Net will be flooded with ways to make it region free.

Let us keep our fingers crossed. I have lot of faith in the cheekiness of the Chinese. Wow! that has a lot of rhyme to it - cheekiness of the Chinese.

Cheers

Venkatcr If such distribution system starts, i will be the first member.

Seriously, can we get BD at rs 200.... are they of same quality as orignal BDs. A movie BD if Singlelayer carries 25 GB of data while a dual layer BD carries 50 GB of data. It is difficult to "rip" it without loss of quality.

I think someone should buy the 200 rs BD and watch it. If they are at par wit a orig BD, we have struck gold!

Becos, when "copied" DVDs hit the market, with 3 in 1/6 in 1 movies on one DVD, the quality was serioulsy compromised. They just ripped the movie video and forget about DTS/HD coding etc..
An average new english movie DVD is of 8-9 GB in size and the guys ripped it all to 1 GB. Consider this the "best compression" standard of the industry.It was a rip off(literally and figurativley)