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Playing DVDs on Blu Ray players?

  • 07-12-2008 12:50PM
    #1
    robo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,834 ✭✭✭


    Probably a stupid question, but is it possible to play regular DVDs on a Blu Ray player?


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  • #2
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    yes

    no such thing as a stupid question :)


  • #3
    Podge2k7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Podge2k7


    Yep you can!


  • #4
    robo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,834 ✭✭✭robo


    Thanks and what is the quality like when you play a dvd on a Blu Ray player?


  • #5
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    robo wrote: »
    Thanks and what is the quality like when you play a dvd on a Blu Ray player?

    DVD quality at best.

    you can't get more out of a dvd than 576p and plain old DD/DTS (DTS6.1 is probably the best multichannel audio mix, and you can get some very good LPCM encoded DVD Audio discs).


  • #6
    Rsaeire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Rsaeire


    robo wrote: »
    Probably a stupid question, but is it possible to play regular DVDs on a Blu Ray player?

    With Blu-ray players, you can upscale a DVD to 1080p resolution, making it look better than it would normally when playing it at its native resolution of 576i/p.

    DVD will never look as good as Blu-ray but when upscaling, it can come that bit closer.


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