Blu Ray Movies Disks Guide

All though Blu-ray DVD players can play the traditional DVD format, the best high definition experience comes from watching Blu Ray format movie disks. The large capacity of the optical Blu-ray discs is what lets them store the extra data that is needed for that Blu-ray quality.

Blu-ray Movie Disks Region Codes:

Blu Ray movie disks have region codes same as DVD movies, which means that a region-encoded disc will only work in a player of the same region. But, there are a very large number of Blu-ray movies being released without region encoding and that means that you can use them regardless of where you purchased your Blu-ray player.

3 Regions of Blu Ray:

Region A: East Asia (not including Mainland China or Mongolia), Southeast Asia and North and South America

Region B: Africa, Southwest Asia, Europe (except Russia) and Oceania

Region C: Central Asia, Mainland China and Mongolia, South Asia and central Eurasia

Optical Rot and Blu Ray Disks

Great strides and advances have been made in technology over the decades to develop special coating material to better protect optical discs from the inevitable decay. Blu-ray discs are coated to keep any "optical rot" conditions away as long as possible, and so Blu-ray discs should last much longer than DVDs did.