Those of you in the US and Canada, beware..the DVD is not compatible with dvd players in N. America...US/Canada uses region 1 (I believe) and other parts of the world (including Japan) use Region 2.
EDIT: There's also regions 3 and 4...
There are 8 regions total.
0 No Region Coding
1 United States of America, Canada
2 Europe, including France, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Japan and South Africa
3 Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo and Indonesia
4 Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America
5 India, Africa, Russia and former USSR countries
6 Peoples Republic of China
7 Unused
8 Airlines/Cruise Ships
Just FYI...