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Bazzack wrote: Be careful. Unlike standard DVD players that can usually be multizoned to play off shore discs, Blu ray discs and players are pretty securely Zoned. ie you prob won't be playing US blu rays on a NZ player.

......Unless Amazon sells zone B discs, or if they release these discs unzoned...... Or you get a hackable Blu ray player.

Ugh, really? That is such a bore. I already have some US zoned Blu Rays that I was given as gifts, so I guess I am locked into trying to secure a multi-zone or otherwise hackable player of some kind now when I purchase one. Sounds liek I'm going to have to research my purchase thoroughly.

Thanks for the caution Baz. I truly detest this region encoding nonsense.

If you ever get problems like this, simply get a cheap blu ray reader and rip the movie to m2ts or MKV format.

PS3's can easily read the m2ts format

George Lucas is being outdone by Peter Jackson?!?

• Star Wars Saga Blu-ray: 6 movies, 9 discs, September release

• Lord of the RIngs Trilogy Blu-ray: 3 movies, 15 discs, June release

JB Hi-Fi has a promotion going at the moment where when you buy a Blu-ray player, you get 50% off up to 30 Blu-ray titles bought at the same time ... just a shame that the Star Wars ones haven't been released yet.