MAJOR Playstation 3 region confusion..

First off, I'm not in the US I'm in Lebanon. Second, the PS3 here is pretty overpriced at $400 for the Slim model. Third, I can however buy the PS3 from Amazon, and today is Black Friday so it's $300 with 2 bundled games [Killzone 2 and inFAMOUS], both of which I do want. Problem: I know everyone says there's no region coding on the PS3 [I can use Google too] but some people do say games do have region codes so I'm not sure if games I buy from HERE would work on a PS3 I get from the US Amazon, or if games I get from the US [they're a lot cheaper there too] would work on a PS3 I buy here.

Now I'm assuming that the games are region free and this won't be a problem, am I correct? My main worry is Blu-Rays. I definitely intend to rent a few from here to watch occasionally and want the region code to, well, not block that. Does the PS3 come region-A encoded (from Amazon) directly, or can I register a region when I first buy it or something? I'm Region B so if I can do that that would be great.

Which would leave the NTSC/PAL problem. Pretty sure everything here is PAL, and in the US it's NTSC right? How would it work out for me if I get a PS3 from the US and hook it up to a PAL TV? And does this pose a problem to Blu-Rays/games that might be PAL/NTSC or something?

I'd appreciate a few detailed answers, I don't want to waste money. Thanks in advance :)

P.S: Kind of need to decide today or that Black Friday deal's going to be gone...

Games dont have region coding, Movies generally do though.

So you live in the US, you have a US PS3 and your buying US PS3 games... What's your problem?

First off, I'm not in the US I'm in Lebanon. Second, the PS3 here is pretty overpriced at $400 for the Slim model. Third, I can however buy the PS3 from Amazon, and today is Black Friday so it's $300 with 2 bundled games [Killzone 2 and inFAMOUS], both of which I do want. Problem: I know everyone says there's no region coding on the PS3 [I can use Google too] but some people do say games do have region codes so I'm not sure if games I buy from HERE would work on a PS3 I get from the US Amazon, or if games I get from the US [they're a lot cheaper there too] would work on a PS3 I buy here.

Now I'm assuming that the games are region free and this won't be a problem, am I correct? My main worry is Blu-Rays. I definitely intend to rent a few from here to watch occasionally and want the region code to, well, not block that. Does the PS3 come region-A encoded (from Amazon) directly, or can I register a region when I first buy it or something? I'm Region B so if I can do that that would be great.

Which would leave the NTSC/PAL problem. Pretty sure everything here is PAL, and in the US it's NTSC right? How would it work out for me if I get a PS3 from the US and hook it up to a PAL TV? And does this pose a problem to Blu-Rays/games that might be PAL/NTSC or something?

I'd appreciate a few detailed answers, I don't want to waste money. Thanks in advance :)

P.S: Kind of need to decide today or that Black Friday deal's going to be gone...

BadBoy_97

So you live in the US, you have a US PS3 and your buying US PS3 games... What's your problem?

RedCat65

I'm from Switzerland, owning a Switzerland Ps3 and having 4 imported US PS3 games, all of them work perfectly fine. The PS3 is region free for PS3 games as you can see, but I can't say anything about Ps1/2 or DVDs/BluRay, somehow the information of the user here seem to differ and that's why I never imported them altough I heard of some from Switzerland that were able to play the ***. Bluray for Final Fantasy even though it's another region

Europe and Saudi are the same Blu-Ray region. Plus the games came bundled so it's a sure thing they'll be the same region as the PS3 no matter where you got it :P

Anyway thanks for the help, guess I'll have to get it from here if I want to watch Blu-Rays. Shame though, the Amazon deal was a killer.