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What’s the cheapest/easiest way to get a non-region locked Blu Ray player? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world to c/homevideo@feddit.uk

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I have a couple of Eureka! releases - “Region B” - that I’d like to watch. My (US) PS4 won’t play them, and apparently there’s a limited number of times you can change the region on it.

I see that Blu Ray drive peripherals exist for computers, but my TV is my computer monitor and a separate player seems like a smarter option.

I don’t tend to buy things new, and get most of my tech from thrifting. Are there any particular brands of Blu Ray players that are more likely to be region free? Is there a quick way of looking at a Blu Ray player and determining what region it can play?

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[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

When I'm away from home, I watch blurays with my laptop, an external BD drive and PowerDVD. You can only change Blu-ray regions five times but there are a couple of PowerDVD system files to delete and this resets the counter.

After researching, it seems Blu-ray drives are all region free but it's the software/firmware of the device controlling it that determines the region settings.

This does not apply to DVDs where the region settings is in the drives firmware but can be bypassed with things like AnyDVD I think.