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Concensus on Blu-ray Regions
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantxradman
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I'm sorry if I am bringing up an old topic, but search seems to be down at the moment.  Have we reached a concensus on how to mark Blu-ray regions?  They are A, B, and C with A covering the Americas and East Asia (excluding China).  What I recall from Ken is that we were to mark these using DVD region code until the program could be modified to have appropriate Blu-ray regions.

I submitted a corrected profile to one Blu-ray title which included changing the region from "No region coding" to "Region 1" .  The disc is marked Region A.  A member disagreed stating that Region 1 is not the same as Region A, but what is the alternative?  You can't mark this region 2 (since Europe is not included) and it's certainly not region free.  What is the current concensus?
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I agree, I've been given to believe that for BD regions, A, B and C are to be marked as 1, 2 and 3 respectively until Ken properly implements them.
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same here...
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I'll change my no vote, but, this needs to be addressed in the rules stating that A = 1, B = 2 and C = 3. I never saw anyone stating it was to be done this way. Can you point me in the right direction?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantxradman
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I'll change my no vote, but, this needs to be addressed in the rules stating that A = 1, B = 2 and C = 3. I never saw anyone stating it was to be done this way. Can you point me in the right direction?

I don't think it's quite that. 
Region A = Americas (formerly R1, R4), Japan (R2), HK and Korea (R3)
Region B = Europe except Russia (R2)
Region C = China (R6), India (R2), Russia (R2), central and south Asia (R3)

I think it's pretty safe to use R1 for Region A and R2 for Region B.  I'm not so sure about using R3 for Region C, but fortunately there are any Region C Blu-ray yet.
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I know what the regions cover, that is why I voted no to a Region A title being lsited as Region 1.

Someone in this thread stated that he thought Region A was to be listed as 1, Region B as 2, and Region C as 3.

I asked to see where this was stated as I had never seen it stated before.

I was actually the first to post the Blu-ray region map in these forums.

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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantxradman
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I think Ken said it in a PM or as a reply to a post.  If the search function worked a little better, it would be possible to bring that up.
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantDr. Killpatient
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Ken doesn't post much, view all his posts!
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I'll change my no vote, but, this needs to be addressed in the rules stating that A = 1, B = 2 and C = 3. I never saw anyone stating it was to be done this way. Can you point me in the right direction?

I don't think it's quite that. 
Region A = Americas (formerly R1, R4), Japan (R2), HK and Korea (R3)
Region B = Europe except Russia (R2)
Region C = China (R6), India (R2), Russia (R2), central and south Asia (R3)

I think it's pretty safe to use R1 for Region A and R2 for Region B.  I'm not so sure about using R3 for Region C, but fortunately there are any Region C Blu-ray yet.

Therefore I would recommend to use:
1,4 = A
2 = B
3,5,6 = C

I realise that this mapping is not correct for all the world (specially Africa and Australia). But IMO it's the best we can do until regions are correctly implemented for Blu-ray.
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantxradman
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Therefore I would recommend to use:
1,4 = A
2 = B
3,5,6 = C

I realise that this mapping is not correct for all the world (specially Africa and Australia). But IMO it's the best we can do until regions are correctly implemented for Blu-ray.

We need it the other way around.  We need a concensus on what to mark as DVD region for Blu-ray region.

If Blu-ray is marked

Region A, then mark DVD Region 1
Region B, then mark DVD Region 2
Region C, then mark DVD Region 3
Region A,B,C, then mark DVD all region

Or is that what you meant?
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Therefore I would recommend to use:
1,4 = A
2 = B
3,5,6 = C

I realise that this mapping is not correct for all the world (specially Africa and Australia). But IMO it's the best we can do until regions are correctly implemented for Blu-ray.

We need it the other way around.  We need a concensus on what to mark as DVD region for Blu-ray region.
If it is marked region A,C, enter 1,3,4,5,6 into profiler.

If Blu-ray is marked

Region A, then mark DVD Region 1
Region B, then mark DVD Region 2
Region C, then mark DVD Region 3
Region A,B,C, then mark DVD all region

Or is that what you meant?

Yes, I meant:
If it is marked region A, enter 1,4 into profiler.
If it is marked region B, enter 2 into profiler.
If it is marked region C, enter 3,5,6 into profiler.
If it is marked region A,B, enter 1,2,4 into profiler.
If it is marked region A,C, enter 1,3,4,5,6 into profiler.
If it is marked region B,C, enter 2,3,5,6 into profiler.
If it is marked region A,B,C, enter 1,2,3,4,5,6 into profiler. Actually in this case mark the disc as "All" (region 0).
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As long as 'A' is marked with at least a '1' I'm happy. (sorry to those of you in the rest of the world )

Seriously I think it is for those of you who are affected by this to sort it out. Looks like you're close. 
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantxradman
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Yes, I meant:
If it is marked region A, enter 1,4 into profiler.
If it is marked region B, enter 2 into profiler.
If it is marked region C, enter 3,5,6 into profiler.
If it is marked region A,B, enter 1,2,4 into profiler.
If it is marked region A,C, enter 1,3,4,5,6 into profiler.
If it is marked region B,C, enter 2,3,5,6 into profiler.
If it is marked region A,B,C, enter 1,2,3,4,5,6 into profiler. Actually in this case mark the disc as "All" (region 0).

That's a lot of marking.  Can we come up with a simpler solution?  That 1,2, and 3 look more and more appealing.
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I don't have any blu-rays, so I'm not directly affected, but I would have said the A=1, B=2, C=3 systems seems the most logical because when Ken does introduce blu-ray regions, all he has to do is change all the 1s into As, the 2s into Bs and the 3s into Cs.

or you could all just convert to HD-DVD... 
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