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Can Blu-Ray play regular DVD?

Speaking for myself, having to pull out DVDs from a pack of seven discs to do screencaps gets real irritating real quick. The idea of having a whole season of Trek on one disc is appealing!

Well, I'd say that'd be handy for things like that.

I already have half a dozen movies that won't fit on a single disc. I watched my King Kong special edition the other day, had to change the disc halfway through. Same with my Lord of the Rings extended editions, every one of them.

And I probably have FIFTY movies that have a "bonus disc" on them. Just being able to combine those onto a single disc will be a huge plus for me.

Hmm, good point.

Here's a bet for you. Within two years, the entire DVD section of any given shop will occupy as much shelf space as the VHS tapes do now (ie precious little). Within five, it will be hard to buy a movie on DVD at all. It'll be hard to buy a player for them too.

Well, of course DVDs will eventualy dissapear. I'm still going to wait for a while 'till I get one. That way, the price will have gone down, and they'll have worked out any kinks with the things.

Cpl Kendall wrote:Can Blu-Ray play regular DVD?

If it's just Blu-ray, then no. I don't think so. They work on two seperate wavelengths. It's one of the problems sony faced when trying to make the PS3 reverse compatible with PS2 discs, which work on DVD-ROM. One of the reasons they've discontinued the reverse compatible models was that it cost too much. It's possible to build both in one unit with a single slot though. It would be more expensive though.

Cpl Kendall wrote:Can Blu-Ray play regular DVD?

Most blu-ray players I've seen can play normal DVDs as well.

GrahamKennedy wrote:

Cpl Kendall wrote:Can Blu-Ray play regular DVD?

Most blu-ray players I've seen can play normal DVDs as well.

To reverse the question, do you know if DVD players can play Blu-ray disks?

Captain Seafort wrote:

GrahamKennedy wrote:

Cpl Kendall wrote:Can Blu-Ray play regular DVD?

Most blu-ray players I've seen can play normal DVDs as well.

To reverse the question, do you know if DVD players can play Blu-ray disks?

Not a chance. That would be like playing a DVD on a CD player. Not an exact analogy, but same basic concept.

Cpl Kendall wrote:Some of us enjoy watching porn with our wives. Lets not buy into the stereotype that porn watchers are womanless losers beating off in their basement.

Hey, let's not go throwing insults around, ok?

Tsukiyumi wrote:
Hey, let's not go throwing insults around, ok?

Haha, so you beat off to porn in your basement? That's fine with me man.

I don't have a basement...

I'm almost finished buying the movies/TV series I want. If/when I have to, I'll get a blu-ray thingie. until that day, though, nope.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I'm almost finished buying the movies/TV series I want. If/when I have to, I'll get a blu-ray thingie. until that day, though, nope.

It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. On the bright side this should be the standard movie format a lot longer then DVD was. Games and such, may grow to need larger formats first but that's still a while off.

The rumour that no movies with nudity will be released on Blu Ray is just a rumour. The owners of the disc have no control over the content of the movies put onto it.

ChakatBlackstar wrote:...On the bright side this should be the standard movie format a lot longer then DVD was...

Or maybe in another five or ten years they'll introduce organic data cubes, or some such, and we'll all be buying more crap we don't really need...

Tsukiyumi wrote:

ChakatBlackstar wrote:...On the bright side this should be the standard movie format a lot longer then DVD was...

Or maybe in another five or ten years they'll introduce organic data cubes, or some such, and we'll all be buying more crap we don't really need...

Now that's just silly. Look at it like this: Hi-Def is so clear it's like you're really there. I don't think it's possible or necesary to get a picture better then that on a TV. Therefore it'll only take up so much space on a disk and the only reason you'd need a bigger disk is for seasons of shows, but I think we can live with that after dealing with 7-disk sets of Star Trek. So there's no need for them to replace Blu-ray that quickly. Video games might need larger disks but it wouldn't be the first time consoles beat video disk technology. Now, the largest console has an 80 GB harddrive while Duel-layer Blu-Ray has 50 GB. These numbers, past experiance, and extensive research in computer technology, all tells me that it'll be a long time before Blu-Ray is replaced.

You're probably right. I was just being a smartass because I'm angry, worried and tired.