do i need to buy a differnt dvd player if i want to play blue ray disc and if i do will the blue ray player play regualr dvds
2007-01-24 08:40:14 · 3 answers · asked by villevallo77 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Yes you do need an actual Blue Ray player. The regular DVD's will play in the Blue Ray player also.
2007-01-24 09:07:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 9 hours of high-definition (HD) video can be stored on a 50 GB disc.
While it is not compulsory for manufacturers, the Blu-ray Disc Association recommends that Blu-ray Disc drives should be capable of reading standard DVDs for backward compatibility. For instance, Samsung's first Blu-ray Disc drive can read and write CDs, regular DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs. All other Blu-ray Disc players released support DVD playback as well. This includes Sony, Panasonic, Philips, LG, Pioneer and PC-based players from Alienware, Sony, and Dell. LG has also produced a player that is capable of playing both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats.
JVC has developed a three layer technology that allows putting both standard-definition DVD data and HD data on a BD/DVD combo. If successfully commercialized, this would enable the consumer to purchase a disc which could be played on current DVD players, and reveal its HD version when played on a new BD player.[19] This hybrid disc does not appear to be ready for production and no titles have been announced that would utilize this disc structure.
The home video game console system PlayStation 3 (Sony) is shipped with a 2x Blu-ray Disc drive. The drive is read-only as is the case with most game console optical drives. According to Sony's press releases, it supports DVD (8x), CD (24x), and SACD (2x) formats in addition to BD-ROM, BD-R, and BD-RE.
November 11, 2006 PlayStation 3 released in Japan.
November 17, 2006 PlayStation 3 released in North America, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Sony also announced in March 2006 their first consumer Blu-ray Disc player the BDP-S1, would be available in stores by July 2006.[22]
2007-01-24 16:47:22 · answer #2 · answered by Grace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you need to buy a different DVD player but if you dont have an HD tv watching blue-ray movies dont mean anything becouse your still watching it in regular standard instead of High Def
2007-01-24 16:53:06 · answer #3 · answered by Video 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋