RCE / REA Information

RCE / REA is an enhanced region protection system that is used on some discs. This additional coding on DVD discs is designed to confuse a multiregion DVD player so it won't be able to play these discs. So far only a few titles have this coding system. We don't think that RCE / REA will be widely added on many new titles. More likely it will vanish.

Currently, only Warner Home Video and Columbia Tristar are experimenting with RCE / REA. We believe that none of our customers will ever encounter this problem. Our new generation players will resolve it automatically.

The RCE / REA is noticed on a multiregion DVD player when a disk will not play, and one of the two error messages will show:

1. A "wrong region" text will be printed on the screen.
2. Or a world map will appear on the screen saying that "This DVD Disk is not intended to be played on a 'code free' multiregion player".

DVD Players with manual region selection:

To resolve the problem you just select the disk's official region manually.
For example: For "The Patriot" disk change the player setting from "Multiregion" or "Bypass" or "Code Free" to "1"

DVD Players with automatic region selection:

In most of the new generation multiregion DVD players, the problem is automatically resolved. The player's "region detector" will simulates selection and setting of the player to the region required by the disk.