World's First Region-Free Blu-ray Disc Player from Momitsu

[kobi001]

According to the Momitsu manual, this player is not region free. An excerpt from page 6 of the BDP-899 manual:

"Both the Blu-ray Disc Player and the discs are coded by region. These regional codes must match in order to play the disc. If the codes do not match, the disc will not play." Following is the link to the page of the manual:

http://www.momitsu.com/products/bdp8...l-E-090219.pdf

[rbinck]

Welcome to the forum kobi001 and thanks for the manual link.

[xsavoie]

If you ask me,the people responsible for imposing the Region 1 and Region A only condition in order for OPPO to be able to sell their products in North America are a bunch of pitiful paranoid a..holes.Most people prefer to buy region 1 DVD'S for various obvious reasons,including the possibility of reselling their DVD'S.There are only a few DVD'S that never seem to be processed to become region 1 NTSC format that people want to get their hands on.Mostly coming from Europe and possibly from the Australia,New-Zealand area.If they would have made it possible for OPPO to at least include these regions in order to avoid counterfeit and cheap priced DVD'S from Asia,that would have been fine by me.Oppo should at least have insisted on that point in order to give us a near perfect versatile Blu-Ray-DVD Player.Is it possible to modify this restriction.

[rex]

As a company based in the U.S., Oppo has to abide strictly by the terms of its licensing agreement. Anyway, at the present time, 70% of all BD titles released are region-free:

Blu-ray Discs may be encoded with a region code, intended to restrict the area of the world in which they can be played, similar in principle to the DVD region codes, although the used geographical regions differ. Blu-ray Disc players sold in a certain region may only play discs encoded for that region. This is primarily used for market segmentation, or price discrimination, but it also allows motion picture studios to control the various aspects of a release (including content and release date) according to the region. Discs may also be produced without region coding, so they can be played on all devices. The countries of the major Blu-ray manufacturers (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, etc.) are in the same region as the Americas. As of late 2008, almost 70% of all released discs were region-free. Major studios have different region coding policies. Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios have released all of their titles region free. Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. have released most of their titles region free, but titles released by Warner's New Line division were, initially, region-coded but subsequently have been released without being locked. Titles released by other labels on behalf of New Line are still subject to some region locking.[62][63] Lionsgate and Walt Disney Pictures have released a mix of titles that were region free and region coded.[64][65] 20th Century Fox has released all but eleven of their titles region coded. In the Blu-ray region coding system, the United States is placed in region A while regions B and C are used for countries which can experience localization delays before U.S. titles are officially released. The opposite, though, is sometimes true and a few new titles such as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Running Scared were released in certain European countries before the U.S. release.[67] In response to the DVD region system, multi-region and region-free DVD players became dominant in certain markets; certain Blu-ray player models have been modified to allow for playback of Blu-ray and DVD discs with any region code. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc

There have been rumors that Momitsu may be blacklisted by the BD consortium. In fact, they may even be denied decryption keys for decoding future movies; this means that some movies released in the future may not play on this Momitsu player. (For all practical purposes, it is "region-free" since it is easy to switch to different regions.)

[Roi1]

If you ask me,the people responsible for imposing the Region 1 and Region A only condition in order for OPPO to be able to sell their products in North America are a bunch of pitiful paranoid a..holes.Most people prefer to buy region 1 DVD'S for various obvious reasons,including the possibility of reselling their DVD'S.There are only a few DVD'S that never seem to be processed to become region 1 NTSC format that people want to get their hands on.Mostly coming from Europe and possibly from the Australia,New-Zealand area.If they would have made it possible for OPPO to at least include these regions in order to avoid counterfeit and cheap priced DVD'S from Asia,that would have been fine by me.Oppo should at least have insisted on that point in order to give us a near perfect versatile Blu-Ray-DVD Player.Is it possible to modify this restriction.