What Will Play On What? And What Will Not??

by Leonard Aaron Caplan

Too often we find that people are confused about Blu-Ray, HD and what can or cannot be played on a DVD or Blu-Ray player. For those of you also wondering, here’s the scoop. Blu-Ray is the current standard format for high-definition video. HD-DVD, the competing high defintion format put out by Toshiba, was soundly defeated in the market some time ago and Toshiba stopped making those player entirely.

So what we have left today are Blu-Ray and regular DVD. A regular DVD can be played on a DVD player as well as a Blu-Ray player. BUT…..a Blu-Ray disc will not play on a regular DVD player. If you by any chance have one of those left-over HD-DVDs, they may or may not play on a Blu-Ray player and they too will definitely not play on a regular DVD player.

Hope that clears things up for you all out there!

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