Unlike region free DVD players, where you could pop in any disc and go, Blu-ray works differently. For DVD, your player made sure the disc matched its region. If region free, it always worked.

With Blu-ray, the software on the disc checks your player for a region, so a region-locked disc must be played on a player set to that region. The player is never really ‘region free’ but more like ‘region switchable’. Most have a way to put them into region A, B, or C. You’ll need to set it to the right region for the disc. A region A disc won’t play when your player is set to region B for example, and the player will always be set to some region. As someone else mentioned, there are different ways, they have to hold down a button when turning it on to go to the right region. For mine, I pick menu language as English, French, or Chinese to change the region in the player’s settings.

To further illustrate, even software that can copy a region locked disc and make it ‘region free’ isn’t doing exactly that. If the disc is Region B, it alters some code on the disc so that no matter what player it is in, the disc thinks it is in a region B player - it is technically still region locked but something on the disc itself tricks it into thinking the player is the right region.

Much different than DVD where it can be “no region set? no problem, I’ll play it!”.

Blu-ray discs are often not ‘region free’ but actually Regions A, B, and C - so it will play on any as long as it is one of those regions. You can have them be region free I believe, but that’s more common.

With the PS5? None. I mean, I’ve done so much cybersecurity work over the years that I “never say never.” Also, I cannot recall the technical details of that aspect of the platform in particular at the moment—and I no longer have access to the PS5 developer documentation set.

But I can state from hands-on experience that:

• Any hackable aspects of the legacy PlayStation architecture were “strongly addressed” in the design of the PS5.
• Location-dependent functionality control was not a major feature in the PS5 development system, but was also “strongly addressed.” Unless a security hole has been discovered, you can assume that the “region locks” are not easily hackable.

Broadly speaking, geography-based architecture limitations for a technology product are, ultimately, silly. Fundamentally difficult to enforce. But you can safely assume that a gigantic zaibatsu like Sony hasn’t left any easy backdoors. There weren’t any in the PS5 platform, last I saw.

That kind of functionality is driven by the bizdev side of the house, who want to profit from segregated distribution of the product. The engineers just roll their eyes, but implement what they are told to code in.

From a performance standpoint, absolutely no difference at all. The PS5 digital edition has the exact same parts as the PS5, but without an optical drive. This is unlike the Xbox Series X vs Series S, where the S has significantly less performance, lower max resolution, and smaller included storage.

The PS5 digital edition is $100 dollars cheaper. The biggest downside is the fact that it is digital only. So keep that in mind. No renting game discs from the likes of Gamefly, or even borrowing a game from a friend. Also, keep in mind any data caps you may have and your Internet download speeds. Some popular AAA games are getting to be enormous in size (ex. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has a storage requirement of 130GB). These games may take a long time to download. For example, the average download speed in the US is reported to be 135mbps (16.875MBps), meaning it would take around 128 minutes to download CoD: Black Ops Cold War, longer if your Internet connection is slower than 135mbps. Considering the long download times and large game sizes, you can only store a handful of AAA games before your storage is full. Then you would need to delete games to make room for new ones, requiring another download of the game later if you want to revisit a game that you’ve deleted.

TL;DR: If you don’t mind waiting for games to download every time you get a new one, and your Internet is uncapped or you have sufficient data before you reach your limit, and you don’t want to be able to play Blu-Ray or 4k Blu-Ray movies, then I would recommend getting the digital version and saving $100 for the same amount of performance. Even if you have the extra money for the standard PS5, if you don’t care about the limitations, you could get the digital version of the PS5 and take the extra $100 and put it towards an SSD for expanded storage once they release the list of compatible SSDs.

There are actually two things regarding this when a DVD or blu-ray disc is authored: is the region set (enabled) or not (disabled), and if set, what region is it? When region is set for blue-ray it can be A, B, C or only two of them or all three. When the region is not set, means it is none of the three. A conventional blu-ray player will look for the region code and will play the disc if it’s detected. The same player may refuse to play a disc where region code is not set, that’s why during commercial authoring, for discs intended to be played anywhere, region code is set (enabled) and set to ABC. Hacked set-top blu-ray players usually have a remote control sequence to select A, B, or C, so yes a region-locked disc should be good with a player whose region-free attribute is like this. I have authored a test blu-ray disc where the region code is not set (neither A, B, nor C); it’s interesting to see how different players react, hacked or otherwise.

Yes, though oddly it has dropped support for 3D blu-ray. While I wouldn’t expect them to go out of their way for it, it’s worked on the PS3 and PS4, and doesn’t seem like adding it to the PS5 would be that difficult. The discs are the same, it just has to interpret the data differently.

The PS4 dropped support for audio CDs, so they do drop support for some things. I just find it odd that they support Blu-ray and 4k blu-ray fully except for one type of disc. Many combo 2D/3D discs still require a 3D capable blu-ray player to watch the 2D version as well, so I imagine it will present problems with those. It is hard to find a standalone blu-ray player, even an extremely cheap one, without 3D support these days, so I just found it to be an odd omission. I use a separate player myself so it doesn’t affect me, but I’d expected them to at least support all the video discs that the PS4 does.

I am planning (more like hoping) to get the PS5 digital edition. 2 big reasons.

1. I have no older play station game discs that I have and want to use for backwards compatibility.
2. I don’t have the space to physically store all the games I would play. I prefer just having them all on the console.

PS5 is a big generational leap over the PS4, here are the true Pros and Cons

Pros

1.Dual Sense Joystick:-

This is the biggest generational leap. It completely changes the immersion while gaming. The game Astrobot which comes free with the PS5 totally shows off what this amazing joystick can do. It is unmatched, no comparison with the PS4 or even with the latest generation of Xbox.Hope the developers harness this technology efficiently

2. 4K 120FPS Gameplay support:-

Very very smooth gameplay, better visuals. PS5 gameplay smoothness is Incomparable to that of PS4, this is again a big generational leap.

3. 8K display Capability :-

8K is the next big thing coming to TV’s. They will start coming down from the Ultra luxury segment and within a span of next 3 to 5 years will start becoming common as 4K is now. This is complete future proofing.

4.All PS4 games Backward compatibility:-

If you have PS4 games , they are still treasure

Other Gimmicks which the PS5 claims but a generic gamer wouldn't care.

1.Faster Load time(SSD over HDD)

2.Distinctive and beautiful design

Cons

1.Availability:

Availability is highly doubtful currently

2. Cost:-

The cost is very high and specially due to the pandemic its not coming down anytime soon. “Its not value for money.” + with 8K TV’s just an ultra luxury segment and most games available are not PS5 exclusives and available for PS4 also, the Dual sense controller features might not be fully harnessed. Hence the cost is not justifiable.

3. Exclusive PS5 games:-

Most of the games on PS5 are available on PS4 also and same will be the case till 2023 atleaset as most AAA have been announced for PS4 as well(Hogwarts legacy, Gotham Knights, God of War : Ragnarok etc.) Due to this the features of the Dual sense controller may not be used to its full potential

4. Size:-

The size of the console is odd, fitting it in your cabinet may get cumbersome.

Hope the answer clears all your doubts and is helpful to you. Happy gaming my friend

PS1 and PS2 can't play Blu-rays in the first place.

PS3, PS4 and PS5 are region-locked for Blu-rays and DVDs, not videogames.

Your PS4 is either three region codes: A, B or C

Your Blu-ray cover is either one region code or can be all three region codes.

If the cover has an A at the back of it, it works in:

North/South America, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan ( it is a country), and Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand.

If the cover has a B at the back of it, it works in:

Europe, Middle East, Africa.

If the cover as a C at the back of it, it works in:

Russia, China, South Asia, All Stan countries.

If the cover has ABC at the back of it, it works in all three regions, but not necessarily region-free in response to a comment.

Aren’t the drive version capable of both digital and Blu-ray?

The reason for 2 versions is simple, manufacturers and game publishers hate discs. Physical game distribution is no longer able to deliver high-performance I/O modern games need, the retail store chain eats up a significant portion of their profit, it is a potential vector for piracy, and it is a pain in the ass in terms of project management, so they aim to eliminate discs as soon as possible.

Microsoft tried the hard way, did not end up well.

So Sony decided to try the sneaky way, let you choose, using price cuts to lure you in.

When less people buy the disc version, they would eventually stop producing that one.

Hail all-digital future!

Why hello there !

As to your question , setting the PS5 , or any other piece of hardware to a country that you are not situated in for that matter , would only give you prices and the trending games that are available for that region . For an example , if you're in India. Setting it to some other country like the US , would make the pricing of the PS store to appear in dollars . Also , your recommendations would alter according to what's relevant and highly sought for from the people of the US . I think that you could try to buy games from the store even though you're from another currency country by an international card , but that's irrelevant to the question .

So yea … these stuff would alter the most … and i don't think it would much of a disaster tho 😅

Disc drive - it does everything the other can, plus play games and movies from discs. I’ve bought too many ‘permanent’ digital purchases, just to have the company lose rights or shut down a few years later, to rely on digital. I go physical whenever possible. I spent quite a lot on permanent purchases on Xbox about a decade ago, I can’t use them now, called support, and they don’t have the rights anymore, though I spent hundreds of dollars.

I also bought many movies through the Disney Movies Anywhere service, which shut down and took my movies with it when they struck a deal with Netflix a few years ago.

At least I typically know what happened when a physical copy is missing, and I own a copy that’s mine, not just the rights to play someone else’s copy off a server so long as they still own the rights and are in business.

Digital is great for indie developers though, and allows a small team with little money to publish a game. They don’t have to pay for millions of boxes, discs, and shipping on them, just to find out no one buys their game and lose all their money. So many more small developers get their voice out there, just like on YouTube where anyone with a phone can post a video, not just people who can afford to have it pressed on blu-ray and stocked in stores.

I’m only anti-digital for big things, as I’ve been burned in the past, and I also like the right to sell a game I don’t like, or am done with, or loan it to a friend so they can decide if they want to buy it - or simply donate it to someone who can’t afford a game and would enjoy something I’ll never play again most likely.

Also, sometimes I get a physical copy, and a month later, it is free on Xbox Gold or some other service. If I bought it digitally, I get nothing. If I bought physical, I can throw it on eBay and get some of my money back.

Yes locked region blu-ray disc will always play on on the region blue ray. It's a little similar to pal/ntsc/secam/

Region Codes for Blu-ray Discs

What is the difference between PAL NTSC and SECAM

Some are, some aren’t — it depends on the distributor and what deals they may have with the producer/studio.

Pretty much the same as it’s always been, some studios are really strict on region-locking because they make a lot of their money off of licensing the ancillary rights to a movie or television series to different countries. Others either don’t care as much because they don’t make as much money licensing off the rights, or because that’s not where their revenue comes from and they want as many people as possible to buy their Blu-Rays.

It’s a lot harder to “unlock” the regions on Blu-Ray players than it is on DVD players (though this article

claims to have a way to do it). Me, I went ahead a bought a “global Blu-Ray player” from 220 Electronics:

Apparently UHD Blu-Rays don’t have Region-locking according to Sony Asia! Maybe try one of those…?

PlayStation reaches a hike in price in 2022 not compared to games need a set price and a standard 62.00 is not extraordinary as the time its takes to make the game and it may over 6 years to make the game and take over 2 years to play a certain game its not like a movie that is seen in only a few hours , a £ 62,00 dollar price tag is for effort and time duration of the concept of art in the game creation

Data costs money and games have reach 100GB of data and would reach 300 GB soon , as data sizes increase it would mean prices would likely increase.

“1st 1 TB game in 2030″

“game prices can reach any limit that PlayStation sets “

“Sony has delivered on gaming and suing Sony for game prices is ludicrous”

Sony with the CD patent with Phillips has seen great growth in gaming giant PlayStation in the 2000s and may be the last console with a cd .

Gaming would see changes that per level purchase would be norm and story's begin to get longer and longer with mega story that last for years and years , digital downloads would be advantage to per level purchase and make better revenue for larger titles .

No, if you wanted a drive, you’d get the drive version. If anything they want less people having drives so that you are stuck with your purchases and can’t sell them, loan them, rent them, etc. to others, who now have to buy their own as well. So they aren’t gonna help you make them less money.

Also, adding an external drive would likely open up a path for easier piracy, and possibly lead to a device that appears to the system as a disc drive, but loads pirated games off a hard drive, etc. Note that when Microsoft released the HD-DVD drive for the Xbox360, it would only play regular DVD, and HD-DVD, you could not load games from it, I’m guessing for this reason.

That drive could also be plugged into a PC’s USB slot, perhaps giving people easier access to contents on the disc. You can use the Xbox360 HD-DVD drive as a PC drive with the right drivers. You can rip movies with it etc. If it could load games, maybe someone would have found a way to do that as well.

They already have you on the best version for their income, and you can always sell it and buy a disc version.

Yes, it should. You would only need 2 things:

• You may want to check the power block to see if it supports different power grids (for instance, if you want to use your US device in Europe), but considering most hardware these days already do that, I would find it very unlikely that the PS5 wouldn’t.
• You may need something that enables you to use US cables in different regions, since the world has a metric crapton of different kind of plugs. While the add-ons generally don’t cost you more than a couple of bucks, you still need one.

However, once you have satisfied these conditions, your PS5 should be usable basically anywhere. Still, I don’t think you would want to carry your PS5 with you to other countries because there is one downside to the PS5 that region free games just cannot solve; the damn thing is humongous and heavy to boot.

Short answer - Yes.

Longer answer - Yes it can, but there are some differences between the capabilities of different models, and in every case you’ll need to install the Blu-ray player app.

The original Xbox One can play standard Blu-Rays

The Xbox One S can play standard Blu-Rays and UHD Blu-Rays (the UHD capability was one of the key selling points of the Xbox One S).

The Xbox One X can play standard Blu-Rays and UHD Blu-Rays. Unlike the Xbox One S, the X can play games at UHD / 4K resolution.

The Xbox One S All Digital has no optical (Blu-Ray) drive and therefore cannot play Blu-Rays at all, either standard or UHD.