Can a Blu-ray disc be played in a DVD player or do you need some other software to use it?

Question

Thanks.

Answer 1

no. blue-ray uses a blue laser which is more narrow than the dvd red laser!

thats why blue-ray disks can store more data on them

Answer 2

only a blu ray dvd player...i no silly hey..

i think the os2 and ps3 used bluray also..there no software available that i know of...goodluck  

Answer 3

no, the disc will not be readable by a dvd laser. it isnt about software.

Answer 4

No they can't.

It's kind of like saying can a DVD disc play in a VHS player... hah..

You mean do you need other software to play the Blu-Ray disc on a DVD player?  I'm not sure if those even exist.

You will need a Blu-Ray player,  which are pretty expensive.

Or a Playstation 3.

Answer 5

No it can't!

You need a blu-ray player to use it!

No software will work!

Answer 6

Isn t that what the blu ray disc is? for the dvd player.

Answer 7

It's entirely a hardware problem... at least at the first point of failure. A Blu-Ray disc will at best be rejected by a DVD player.

It's very much the same problem you would have trying to play a DVD in a CD player. The red laser in a DVD player is not capable of reading the tiny pits in the Blu-Ray disc.. they're too small for that wavelength of light, just as the infrared laser in the CD player is too low frequency to read a DVD.

If the laser and basic low-level ability to read the disc were not the problem, then you'd run through a bunch of other incompatibilities -- the data format on disc (including error correct), the file system, etc. On a PC, you'd eventually find a software problem... DVD players don't know about most of the media formats supported on Blue-Ray: AVC video, VC-1 video, MPEG-2 high definition, most of the audio formats, etc. In a stand-alone DVD player, that's both hardware and software, since nearly all DVD players use hardware decoders, which can only decode standard-def MPEG-2 (both AVC and VC-1 are more complex than MPEG-2).