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.
Although a large portion of all Blu-ray movies are region free (when this is written about two-thirds of all Blu-ray movies are region free) below is a map of the official regions. 1  Region A: America, Japan, Korea, South East Asia. 2  Region B: Greenland, Europa, Africa, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand.