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.
DVD Regions. All ABC DVDs are currently encoded for region 4 DVD players for copyright and other legal reasons. They will also play on non-region specific DVD players, which allow the owner to view any DVD purchased from anywhere in the world. Before sending family and friends who are overseas any of our DVDs it would be wise to ask them to consult their DVD player manuals for compatibility with region 4 DVDs.