Playable Discs - LG BH100 Training Manual

REGIONAL PLAYBACK CONTROL (RPC) FOR BD
The BD format has a similar Regional
Coding system as DVD. However, the BD
RPC System is divided into only 3 regions
marked A, B, and C.
Region A: North America, South America,
Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan
Region B: Europe, Africa, the Middle East,
Australia, New Zealand
Region C: Asia

PLAYABLE DISCS

The BH100 is a Blu-ray Disc Player with backwards compatibility for DVD discs. The BH100 also has
the bonus ability of playing the high definition audio and video content of HD DVD discs.
The BH100 supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and VC-1 video compression formats for both BD and HD DVD
movies. The MPEG-2 level supported is MP@ML and HP@ML. (MPEG-2 MP@ML is the only format
supported for DVD playback.) The MPEG-$ level supported is MP@L4.1 only. The VC-1 level supported
is AP@L3 only. This first generation model supports 1 video stream for BD discs and only the primary
video playback on HD DVD discs. Two audio streams are supported for BD, only 1 audio stream for HD
DVD.
The BH100 supports LPCM, Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG, and MLR Audio. However, Dolby Digital support
is limited to only AC-3 and DTS support is limited to DTS Digital Surround sound. This first generation
model supports all BD and DVD subtitle formats, however, HD DVD's XML content is not supported.
The BH100 is labeled as a "Super Multi Blue Player". This player supports playback of the following
disc types:
Blu-ray Disc
• BD-ROM AV (HDMV and BD-J Titles)
• BD Hybrid (BD-ROM AV & DVD)
• BD-R/RE discs are not supported by this first generation model.
DVD Disc
• DVD-Video format
• DVD±R/RW
• DVD±R/RW DL
• Playback of DVD recordable discs is only supported when
recorded and finalized in the DVD-Video format. All other variants of DVD (i.e. DVD-
Audio, DVD-RAM, VR Mode) are not supported.
HD DVD Disc
• HD DVD-ROM
• Combo Format (HD DVD & DVD)
• Recordable formats of HD DVD discs are not supported. In addition, menu functions of
the HD DVD format is not supported in this first generation model.
BH100 Blu-ray Player
BD Region Codes
A
B
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OVERVIEW
C
Compression Support
MPEG-2 MP@ML
MPEG-2 HP@ML
MPEG-4 MP@L4.1
VC-1 AP@L3
Overview