BC and AD are abbreviations for before Christ and Anno Domino mean before the Christ's birth after the Christ's birth
Standard DVDs. 1  Region 1: U.S., U.S. Territories, Canada, and Bermuda. 2  Region 2: Japan, Europe (excluding Russia, Belarus and Ukraine), Greenland, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Egypt and the Middle East. 3  Region 3: Southeast Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
Regional Blu-ray playback is divided into 3 region codes, A, B and C. Our region free Blu-ray players play them all! On some models, we offer region A Blu-ray playback and region free DVD playback.