What equipment is needed to play an hd dvd?

Question

My daughters received a copy of Shrek the Third that is an HD DVD and unfortunately it does not seem to work on any of our regular dvd players.

Answer 1

You have to buy an HD DVD player.  Sorry...

Try finding out which store it is from and exchanging it for a regular DVD.

Answer 2

hd dvd player.that format has already dead.it might have regular dvd on the other side if the other side is playable.

Answer 3

This might be a little tricky, here's why.

Toshiba, the main backer of HD-DVD bowed out of the HD disc war, and no one is really manufacturing anything for HD-DVD because of that.  Everything is now Blu-Ray as far as HD DVDs.  

Your better off just tossing it, and buying a new copy on regular DVD if you don't want to output huge expenses.  

Good luck!

Answer 4

No it won't work in regular DVD players. It will play ONLY in an HD-DVD player. Just like Blu-ray DVDs won't play in a regular DVD player, but only in a BD player. One would hope that eventually the technologies will converge and any DVD will play in any DVD player, but don't hold your breath.

On the bright side both HD-DVD players and BD players WILL play regular SD (standard definition) DVDs complete with upscaling.