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princessmasterpiececollection — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 08:08:44 GMT

What ist he format for the DVD's in Australia?

As in, if I buy a DVD from Australia that does not have anything about that it will only play in Austraila

can I assume it will play in the USA?

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cq_tech — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 08:13:03 GMT

Australian DVDs are Region 4, US DVDs are region 1. They are not interchangeable and you can only play both on a region-free DVD player.

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go-tazz — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:46:16 GMT

You also have region free DVD's sold in Australia,(I have sold a "few" of those).

Region code Area FREE Informal term meaning "worldwide". Region 0 is not an official setting; discs that bear

the region 0 symbol either have no flag set or have regions 1–6 flags set. Region 0 is commonly referred to as

"Region Free", especially when talking about DVD and Blu-ray Disc players.

Region 1: United States, Canada, Bermuda, Caribbean, U.S. territories

Region 4: South America, Central America, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea and much of

Oceania

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chrisn5162 — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 12:09:51 GMT

Aust DVDs are also in PAL format but US ones are in NTSC format. So even if they were region free, they would still need a multi format player to play on both...

Most Aust DVD players are multi format but thar may not be so in the US..