Will new Blu-Ray dvds play on my older dvd player? And will HD dvds play on a new Blu-Ray player?

Question

Will new Blu-Ray dvds play on my older dvd player? And will HD dvds play on a new Blu-Ray player?

Answer 1

No - the formats and technologies are completely different.  Your BluRay player may be able to play regular DVD's but it depends on the manufacturer.

Answer 2

There are no more HD DVD, read the news. Blueray won. And it wont play on your old dvd player.

Answer 3

Nope

Answer 4

No Blu-Ray discs only play on Blu-Ray players.

Same with HD-DVD

An HD-DVD player will play regular DVDs though.

Answer 5

No and no. Stinks don't it?

Answer 6

You MUST have a Blu-Ray player to play Blu-Ray DVDs unless you spent $1,000.00 or so on the HD DVD player/Blu-Ray combo.  Most Blu-Ray DVD players will also play standard DVDs but will not play HD DVDs (again, unless you spent $1,000.00 or so on the HD DVD/Blu-Ray combo).

Answer 7

Nope. You need a PS3 or a blu-ray player to play blu-ray. HD dvds are getting phased out. You can't play any DVDs on blu-ray players.

Answer 8

the blu-ray dvd's will play on your older dvd player but I dont thik that the hd dvds will play on the new blu-ray player

Answer 9

Your new Blu-Ray DVD's will ONLY play on a Blu-Ray machine (they will not play on either a standard or HD DVD player).

HD DVDs will not play on a Blu-Ray machine.

There are some *very* expensive machines which are formatted to play either Blu-Ray and HD DVD's

The visual quality of both Blu-Ray and HD DVD's however are only really noticable if you have a Hi-Definition Television to watch them on.

Both HD DVD machines and Blu-Ray machines will play "standard" format DVD's.

Answer 10

No and No.

Blu-Ray Discs (BD's or BRD's) will not play in a DVD player the use a deferent laser that is Blue/violet that is a much cmaller ray of light to read the data that the red laser of DVD players will not read.

HD-DVD players use yet another blue laser that can not read Blu-Ray Discs, just as Blu-Ray players can not read HD-DVD's

The real issue is can my new Blu-Ray player play my old DVD's.....YES! All your old DVD's can still play in a Blu-Ray player and they will be upconverted to near high def quality, not as good as a Blu-Ray Disc, but better than if they were played on a standard DVD player.