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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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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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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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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..

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