sony dvd player SR500H region free

[asra]

hi, I have a dvd player Sony SR500H and want to do that region free to play all the kind of cd and dvd. I need help.
Thnx

[hech54]

hi, I have a dvd player Sony SR500H and want to do that region free to play all the kind of cd and dvd. I need help.
Thnx

NOT going to happen.

[october262]

hi, I have a dvd player Sony SR500H and want to do that region free to play all the kind of cd and dvd. I need help.
Thnx

anything that is made by sony is impossible to make region free

[asra]

i don't understand the reason of region restrictions. If there are 6 regions in the world ...we need 6 dvd player after their mind? Hahahahah. stupid idea. The world is greater than what they think.

[jman98]

Audio CDs and VCD (they are on CD media) do not have region codes. You asked about CDs specifically in the original post along with DVDs.

Region codes exist because Hollywood demanded them. About 10 years ago and earlier, many major Hollywood releases crawled their way around the world. It was not unusual at all for major stars to be asked to go to Hong Kong and Japan on promotional tours for films that had played in the USA a full year earlier and were just then starting to open in Asia. The whole worldwide distribution system was very idiotic if films would take a full year to open in other parts of the world. When DVDs came out, what began to happen was that films were available on DVD before they ever opened in some parts of the world. For example, a film might have already been released to the movie theaters in the USA, completed its run, and come out on DVD in the USA before Japan ever got it to the movie theaters. The internet made that system fail because people would make American movies available via rippped copies through the internet to Asia before the films ever opened and this had a big effect on the ticket sales. So the region codes are in part a legacy of an old distribution system that no longer exists. For the most part today, major releases open on the same day around the world or perhaps with a difference of only 1 or 2 weeks.

Another legacy reason for region codes is that outside of the USA, films get sold to distributors who may not be in any way connected to the US distributor for the same film. Those distributors get the DVD and BluRay rights too. So Hollywood doesn't want people outside of the USA and Canada buying DVDs and BluRays from North America because they made some distributor pay big money elsewhere (Europe, Asia, etc.) for the local rights to the film and the home video release. If it was easy for people to buy and play foreign DVDs and BluRays, the foreign distributors would demand to pay less for the rights because they'd be getting fewer home video sales. The situation doesn't really work that way in the USA because foreign films rarely do well here (anything above $10 million for a foreign film in US box office receipts is considered wildly successful) so their rights in the USA aren't worth a lot of money, but Hollywood doesn't want us buying other regions' DVDs because every dollar we spend doing that is a dollar we won't be spending on Hollywood made movies.