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 region code - Region codes and countries. 1  DVDs in Hispanophone Latin America and Mexico use both the region 1 and region 4 codes. 2  DVDs sold in the Baltic states use both region 2 and 5 codes. 3  Region 0 (playable in all regions except 7 and 8) is widely used by China and the Philippines [citation needed].