This guide will help you when buying imported Blu-rays by assisting you in determining whether or not they will play on your blu ray player.

Regions:
Blu-Ray discs have region codes which have been separated in three different zones.

Region A: North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
Region B: Europe, Greenland, French territories, Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Region C: India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mainland China, Pakistan, Russia, Central and South Asia.

However, many discs have been encoded to support all regions virtually making them region free.


Region free studios:
Generally until now Blu-ray releases from Warner, Paramount and several other studios have all been region free. Please look below for a complete list of the studios.
This of course does not guarantee that future titles from these studios will be region free. But judging from the history, it is very likely that future titles from these studios will be region free.

Warner
Paramount
Starz / Anchor Bay
Magnolia
Razor
Platinum Disc
Eagle Rock Ent
Concert Hot Spot
R&B Films
BCI
HBO
First Look Pictures


A-bit-of-both studios:
Sony, Lionsgate and several other studios are a little more unpredictable in their region coding of Blu-ray titles. They have all released region free titles (like Sony's 6th Day) and region locked titles (like another Sony title: Casino Royale). When it comes to future releases from these studios, we recommend that you wait until they come in stock and have been tested.

Sony
Lionsgate
Touchstone /Disney
Disney
MGM
Miramax
New Line


Region coded studios:
So far Fox and Image have only released region locked titles.

20th Century Fox


In order to find out if a blu ray disc is region free you can go to http://bluray.liesinc.net/
For example if you want to buy a Blu Ray that originated from the US. Click the Region A link at the top of the page and search for your title. It will display whether or not that title is region free.