Re: Is the PS3 blu-ray region locked?


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"Matt Robertson" <SPEAMMENOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pretty much as per the subject line, will I be able to play region 1
blu-ray and DVD's?

5 seconds of typing "PS3 region lock" into Google produced the following
information:-

"Is the Playstation 3 region-free?
Yes. Sony has stated that 1st party Playstation 3 games will be
region-free,
but Blu-Ray movies will still feature a region-lock. Third party game
publishers can use their own discretion and decide whether or not they
want
to include region-coding in their game releases. "

Don't you just love Sony?

Is the Playstation 3 region-free?

Yes, they say, before moving on to say that Blu-ray movies are locked and
3rd party publishers can decide for themselves whether to lock their games.
So the Playstation 3 IS region locked, it's just that first party games will
be region free, which is not the same thing as the machine itself being
region free at all.

That would make the answer "No", Sony.


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