Can I play a Dvd-Hd on a Blue Ray player such as the Playstation 3 br player? And if not; Why can't I? ,,,,,

Question

I bought March of the Penguins in HD-dvd but now i don't think I can play this movie in the Blue Ray player of my Playstation 3.
Why can't I, Whats the difference?

Answer 1

Although they are both high definition discs and output to 1080p they are totally different video formats and technologically different. You can only play Blu-Ray discs and regular DVDs on your PS3.

Kinda sucks cuz certain movie studios only support on particular format. So you may find one movie on HD-DVD and not on Blu-Ray.

Answer 2

Here is some more info for you

Blu-ray


Industry Support Apple; Dell Inc.; Hewlett Packard Company*; Hitachi, Ltd.; LG Electronics Inc.; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; Panasonic (Matsushita Electric); Pioneer Corporation; Royal Philips Electronics; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Sharp Corporation; Sony Corporation; TDK Corporation; Thomson; Twentieth Century Fox; and Walt Disney Pictures and Television, Warner Bros.*
** The Blu-ray Disc Association
has over 170 members

Studio support Lion’s Gate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures and Television, (including Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures Home Video, Touchstone Home Entertainment, Miramax Home Entertainment, Dimension Home Video and Disney DVD) Warner Bros. (including New Line Cinema and HBO Video) have publicly announced their support for the Blu-ray Disc format.

Game support EA, Vivendi Universal Games and PlayStation 3 (PS3 will have an integrated Blu-ray Disc drive)
Music Support Universal Music Group, Sony BMG




HD-DVD


Toshiba, NEC*, Memory-Tech,
Microsoft, Intel, Sanyo*, HP*

Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Studios (including New Line Cinema)
Microsoft (Xbox 360 will have a peripheral add-on drive)

Answer 3

at present, the Playstayion 3 is the final Blu-Ray participant you will get perfect now, Sony has even pronounced so themselves! So that's an exceedingly super deal, not in undemanding terms are you able to play video games on it, even with the undeniable fact that it is likewise the final Blu-Ray participant on the marketplace perfect now. and don't pay attention to Tedo S, he's faulty. The psthree DOES play on popular television's, yet basically like a popular Blu-Ray participant, for the final image high quality, an HDTV with an HDMI cable is often recommended, yet you do not genuinely choose one. the image will basically be greater constructive in case you do.

Answer 4

You can't play HD-DVD on Bluray. The reason being, it's industry conspiracy. I'm sure some one can come up with a player that plays both and it'll happen in near future, but for now you just can't. If you want to get in detail of why it's incompatible, I have to talk a little bit of physics. To pack data on the disc, either you layer it so that you have more space to write on or you can shrink the laser to that it can write more on to existing space.

Original CD held about 650mb then it grew to 800mb by using the CD to the outer edges.

Then came DVD, DVD used smaller "pit" than CD and it used the space more efficienly to give about 4x the storage of CD. Hence it gave us about 4500mb. Then came the dual layer DVD to increase the storage to 8700mb.

Now both CD and DVD used the same red laser to do this.

Then came some Japanese guy who found a way to create a
Blue LED light. Now you might ask, why would it be hard to create a Blue light? Let's just say that creating a pure Blue light is hard. I mean pure Blue light doesn't really exist in nature other than our Sun light which composed of all the visible light in spectrum. You can create red light easy because there are lot of natural element that emits light when charged with energy, i.e. NEON signs. But no natural element gives off Blue light. The only way in the past, to artificially create a Blue light would be to produce two different light to mix it together to give off Blue appearance.
With the Blue LED then came the Blue laser. Which layed the foundation for HD-DVD and BluRay disc. Both HD-DVD and BluRay uses the Blue laser which smaller wavelength than Red laser. Smaller wavelength allow us to use even smaller hole to represent the data. How smaller? Blue light is about 7x smaller than Red light. Hence we are able to get 34000mb on BluRay and HD-DVD. The difference between BluRay and HD-DVD is how the disc is manufactured. HD-DVD was created such that existing DVD manufacturing facility can add little modification to their existing plant to create HD-DVD. Meaning HD-DVD is just DVD with material that can be used for Blue Laser. BluRay on the other hand is totally brand new manufacturing that is suppose to answer/address the problems most DVD is facing.

What DVD problem do you say? Well, let's face it, HD-DVD and DVD was created out of CD. CD was designed to work with the older Red laser in mind. Meaning, the whole medium was created to work well with Red laser. It wasn't really meant to work with any other wavelength light.

Because Blue light are smaller in wavelength it is more prone to scattering effect cuased by the clear acrylic mold that make up the outer layer of the disc. If you examine the CD, DVD, HD-DVD, the distance from the outer layer where the laser enter and to the surface of the data hole is relatively large compare to the Blue light wavelength. Because the distance is large, you will get more scattering effect and more prone to generating error in the long run if the disc surface is damanged or scratched. The BluRay disc shortens the distance between the clear acrylic outer surface to the data surface to that the laser doesn't have to travel very far to read the data.

So to conclude why you can't play a HD-DVD on a BluRay is that the laser have to know what distance it needs to travel and at what angle it needs to read the data being reflected.

Since HD-DVD and BluRay uses different distance from the outer surface to inner surface, a smart player can adjust to the difference but currently, no one is making it happen due to my origial statement, it's conspiracy.