Movie Information

In this section of we have tried to create an educational home on our web site by providing technical movie information. This will generally be a what is it and how does it work section that will hopefully, help you understand what is required to watch your favourite movie on DVD or television before you put the disc into the DVD player.

All DVDs have a region code. Movie and music companies use them to restrict the sale of CDs around the world. In theory, the DVD player that you have should only allow you to play DVDs and CDs from the country code of your region. The player reads the code from the CD and renders it unplayable that way a movie that is released in America on DVD can't be watched in Australia until the Film Company releases it.

There are eight different region codes denoting the areas of the world. Australia has a code of 4 along with New Zealand, the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, South America (except French Guiana) and the Oceania region.

Movie Classifications

Movie Classifications are made by the Classification Board, which is an independent statutory body that makes classification decisions about computer games, films and publications. The board follows guidelines agreed to by the Australian Government and the States and Territories.

There is also an independent Classification Review Board, which is also a statutory body. This board has the power to review original classification decisions and make new classification decisions.

Movies Glossary

We have also included a Glossary page where you can find out what stuff is like an LCD. LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display. This technology has been used for a while with things like wristwatches but we see LCD technology used in large flat screen TVs and computer monitors.

Historically LCD screens have been smaller than Plasma screens, which is why they are so prevalent as computer screens, the technology is however improving with bigger LCD screens now competitive in size with Plasmas.

A DVD is like a CD but it gives you eight time the storage power. The Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc is an optical disc storage media format that is used primarily to store data, movies and software.

One thing that people always look up when searching a for a movie is the Movie Genres. This is where you will find all the different categories of movies. You will find that the most popular movie genres include Action movies, Adventure movies, Comedy movies, Drama movies, Fantasy movies, Romance movies, Horror movies and Mystery movies.

In January, the Australian Film Industry announced that 2006 was the second highest grossing year at the box office with Australians spending $866,609 million on watching movies at the cinema. This represented a 6% increase on the previous year's figures.