Or, if you're anywhere near The Netherlands, Google for Stegen Electronics in Rhoon.
Region-coding problems (BluRay or otherwise) are now a thing of my past and my player even still has the original guarantee on it.

I recommend getting a Panasonic Blu-Ray player like the DMP-BDT110 for which region-free modified firmware is available from firmwareinfo.com The firmware is only available against a small "donation" but it works and is always maintained up-to-date.

There are also cheap no-name Chinese BR players that are shipped region free for Blu-Rays but they usually only implement older BR Profiles without BR Live. The Momitsu and Sherwood players recommended by DVDBeaver all got their firmware upgraded to remove region changing so I cannot recommend any of those options. One should also be aware that due to the way region locking is implemented in BluRays automatic region switching is not possible so all those players have to have their region switched manually before you insert the BD using a code. When buying also be extra careful that the player really supports region switching for BluRays and not just for DVDs which is much more common. Some people prefer HTPCs with AnyDVD HD or having two or even three BluRay players for each region each as alternative solutions.

The easiest, cheapest solution that takes no time, costs nothing and avoids all those headaches is to pirate the movies of course. Thank you, movie studios!
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Umm.... use HDMI to output the sound directly to your receiver. Problem solved.

Plus, no matter how much I tweak my media centre pc, the picture quality doesn't even come close to my Oppo BDP-95.

Because unless you have a very high end audio card, you don't get lossless.

momaw you dumbass, just what makes PCs have bad sound quality?

BluRays wouldn't have regioncoding if it wasn't for HD-DVD.
Sony only included that spec to get distributors on its side during the HD format war.

So I'd be careful who you're calling "wrong" or "right" in this case. If HD-DVD had won, Toshiba would have had to incorporate regioncoding as well because they actually had started promising it to distributors themselves, although there never was a regioncoded HD-DVD made.

Not to forget that there was a region-free format, it was called HD-DVD.
Some people who are upset now might just realize they supported the wrong format ...

Region coding is just a form of (arguably illegal) protectionism.

Is music region coded? Are books region coded? We now live in a global economy. Movie studios take advantage of that global economy everyday (filming in cheaper countries, pressing their blu-ray discs in cheaper countries) but then want to lock the consumer out of that same right. All region coding does is prevent someone from playing a legally purchased disc in their legally purchased blu-ray player.

Agree with Claudio on much of what he says, and for new films I can understand you'd do something like regioncoding to secure the artist's income (even though it stimulates piracy like crazy). But legacy-titles like Hara-Kiri? Ridiculous...

I'm not really keen on making licensed movies from other countries published in some other country as region free, as that could hinder the creator's income (take Japan for example, their movies are VERY expensive compared to Europe and the US). On the other hand, I think that the original movie should always be region-free, so that the creators could sell their work world-wide as they intended, and not modified by some licensor (even if they are nowadays quite restricted on modifications).

Still, I do understand that being an English user it is really stupid not being able to play an English subbed/dubbed movie from the US if I'm from the UK (and vice-versa). Same goes for the other countries that use the same language or share it.

In the end I think region free is best, whether the movie is a licensed product from another country or it's in-country produced. Let's hope that the next format after BD is completely region-free.

PC's are the worst BD players. Garbage sound quality.

Don't use shitty Blu-Ray players, hook a PC up to your TV, or just watch your movies on your PC.

Problem solved.