
So to continue playing and watching your favorite movies in CyberLink PowerDVD regardless of what region code the BD discs have, there is a hack that can reset and crack the Blu-ray region information in PowerDVD. Region C/3 – China, India, Russia, Rest of the world Region B/2 – Europe (EU), Africa, Middle East, New Zealand, Australia Region A/1 – North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia In CyberLink PowerDVD program, users can set or change the region code up to 5 times after initial configuration, and then the application will be locked on the region you have listed on your fifth and last change. The Blu-ray supported playback software manages that region code in computer instead of the BD drive. However, on computers, these region locking mechanism works differently. When a BD disc is inserted into Blu-ray player, a checking program on disc will compare its own RPC details to those encoded in the player and stops operation if both do not match.

BD-ROM AV (HDMV/BD-J) discs can be authored to play in one, multiple or all regions (region-free), but Consumer electronics (CE) players players are region-specific.


However, the region codes for Blu-ray discs are different from DVD’s, where BD region code groups countries into three geographic areas only. Blu-Ray Disc (BD) or BD-ROM AV video discs also feature Regional Playback Control (RPC) which more commonly known as region code first introduced in DVD video discs.
