What is region?

Question

What is region?

Answer 1

The reason there are different region code is that not every TV is the same in every country. It is the scan type on the TV. There are two types PAL and NTSC. US used NTSC and Countries like the Middle EAST use PAL. The difference is in the US the lines that make up the picture that you see goes across the screen and stops and is brought back to the left side and scanned across. The PAL version is scanned across and turned 180 degrees around and scanned back to the left side. So it would work to try a PAL tape on a NTSC TV or the other way.

Answer 2

each country has a region code 1.2.3.4 etc so if you buy a DVD in Australia ..you can't play it in an American dvr  unless you change the region and then i believe that you can only change it 3 times