Can a Blu Ray Disc player play regular DVDs?

Question

Can a Blu Ray Disc player play regular DVDs?

Answer 1

Yes, all Blu Ray players play DVD's. In fact, most of them will upscale your DVD to HD 1080p, so your collection will look even better than before.

Answer 2

They play standard dvd's just fine, they have a problem with blu-ray discs though - you need to update the software for practically every new movie that comes out.

Answer 3

Yes Blu-Ray player will play regular DVDs, they picture just won't be as sharp and clear as your Blu-Ray DVDs.

Answer 4

2.2  Will Blu-ray be backwards compatible with DVD?



Yes, several leading consumer electronics companies (including Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Pioneer, Sharp and LG) have already demonstrated products that can read/write CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs using a BD/DVD/CD compatible optical head, so you don't have to worry about your existing DVD collection becoming obsolete. In fact, most of the Blu-ray players coming out will support upscaling of DVDs to 1080p/1080i, so your existing DVD collection will look even better than before. While it's up to each manufacturer to decide if they want to make their products backwards compatible with DVD, the format is far too popular to not be supported. The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) expects every Blu-ray Disc device to be backward compatible with DVDs.

Answer 5

A bluray player can play dvd i think because my PS3 can play dvds. But a Blu Ray "player" disc is a disc and can not play anything other than the movie/game on it.

i hope this helps