Does anyone know on if the ”Welcome 2 America” live blu-ray disc will be the same region free in all international editions (EU, US, Japan)?

Thinking of ordering the Japanese CD/Blu-Ray special edition, but can’t find no info on if it’s gonna have a region code or not.

The one from Japan is region free.

I thought about ordering from Japan too but the total wasn't much cheaper than Amazon's US price.i think it was maybe a $10 difference
So I went ahead with Amazon and got the 2 day shipping method

Will the Blu Ray be released ever as a stand off release?

DarylB said:

Will the Blu Ray be released ever as a stand off release?

No telling. They want the deluxe to sell.

Is it so hard to go to the official site and read what it says there?

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Alternatively, try basic reasoning: this is a LIMITED EDITION. Do you expect them to make region-locked BDs? Also, why not think back on previous Deluxe releases and investigate whether its DVDs were region free?

BartVanHemelen said:

Checking out the official site makes sense of course. Although, forming an expectation based on its Limited Edition status, or even past releases, isn’t basic reasoning. It’s piss-poor reasoning. Actually, it’s not reasoning at all. It’s pure assumption. It’s worthless.

RighteousOne said:

Although, forming an expectation based on its Limited Edition status, or even past releases, isn’t basic reasoning. It’s piss-poor reasoning. Actually, it’s not reasoning at all. It’s pure assumption. It’s worthless.

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Ah really? Please explain why they now suddenly want to go through the hassle of region locks, considering this will increase their costs and offer no benefits. Matter of fact, it will likely annoy fans. For some incomprehensible reason there are still non-US fans who order their sets through prince.com, which would mean that now the Estate will need to implement multiple supply chains (you do realise there are THREE regions, right?) which would immensely complicate things for them with no benefit. Or they could ignore all that and send people discs they cannot play and then they'd need to deal with all those complaints. Of course, they could ignore that as well.

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Yet here we are, and my plain and simple reasoning (they haven't done it in the past, and it makes no business sense to do it) provides the correct result. Must be some strange coincidence.

BartVanHemelen said:

After wading through all your verbiage, I had to come to the same conclusion. It’s still assumption. It’s still worthless. Are you aware of logic? Why bother with ‘reasoning’ anyway? Stick to the facts, man. You, of all people, should know this. You were fine with ‘check the website’ but then you had to keep going, didn’t you? Not one of your finest hours.
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From the Prince official store website:

“Blu-Ray (region free)”

https://store.prince.com/...1cd-bluray

Bart is right, so we can all calm down 😊

FrankieCoco1 said:

Jesus Christ, did you not read any of the above? His website referral was just about the only worthwhile thing he did. Everything else was redundant, just like your post. I give up sometimes.

The "ego" isn't a joke. Wow.


Good info to know.

I’ve ordered the CD/blu Ray set from CDjapan, so sent them a query, “Is the blu Ray in this package “region free”, i.e. able to be played on any blu Ray player?”. I got the following reply:

“Dear Customer,
Region of he Blu-ray is A.
Please check your player is playable region A or not.”

So taking that as read, it won’t be region free from Japan. However, I have my doubts until I get the package and try the blu Ray. I think it’s feasible it will be region A only, as the CD is a slightly different spec [being ‘Blu-spec CD2’] to the one from the Estate.

Will just have to wait and see, to be absolutely sure.