Are blu-rays region locked?

Question

My dad is out in america at the moment. cloverfield comes out the day he leaves on blu-ray. Will it be region free?

Answer 1

Only some Blu-rays are region locked (See the link for a current list). That said, it's moot since Cloverfield is NOT being released in the US on Blu-ray (at least not yet.). Paramount has yet to release any projected dates for Blu-ray disks. So the only version to be sold in the US is the DVD.

See the last link for a site that lists release dates in the US.

Answer 2

FOX is always region locked.

Warner is not, hopefully Universal and Paramount isn't.

Get him to check the region coding (the octagon symbol) if it's says (depending on whether you got your player from)

A - United States, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong

B - Australia, UK, Europe, New Zealand

C - All the rest

so basically if you got your player from the UK (example) it is a region B player and will only play discs labelled with the B octagon sign.

Oh found out cloverfield is distributed through Paramount, most likely it will be region free but check just to be sure.

Region coding is a pain I know, I can't borrow any of my friends discs or buy discs from the shop down the street as most of them won't play! (Region code screen of death comes up)