Do all blue ray player's play dvd's?
837349
First off, this model is not a blu-ray player. It is "upscaling" artificially sharpens DVD's to appear better on HDTVs. To answer your question: No. The very first generation of blu-ray players did not necessarily play DVD's. DVD uses an entirely different laser and lense and adds to the cost of manufacture.
2122846
yes they will play normal dvd's if you have any recorded in mp4 or windows media ect check to make sure it plays those types of files blue ray is just a lot more lines of resolution giving better picture quality match it up with a tv with 720 or 1080 and you should get very nice picture!
1517892
Most likely it will not work. The device is meant for a computer, and not a standalone device. The computer will have the necessary means of loading software to make it work, whereas the blueray/DVD player has a custom operating system that will not work the same way.
1721257
Depending on your disk drive (it has to be rated for Blue Ray) able to play . You need proper drivers for what windows system you are using. I have a E6500 in my system and I have a DVD recorder and with no problems.
334796
I know that this dvd player is not Blue Ray. I have not tried to play any in there because I do not have any, so I cannot say for sure! I suppose that if it can play them, it would not be with the Blue Ray quality... This dvd player even plays dvd's that are scratched, which otherwise would not work in most other players.
877068
not that I am aware of. I know it (obviously) plays regular DVD's. I don't own any blue ray dvd's either so I can't test it to see if it does or does not. Normally, any blue ray player has the "blue ray" logo somewhere on the drive or the pc unit itself. This gateway model, does not.
1818427
I have played with a third party software, Blu ray movies. So it should also play DVD movies too.
491705
Only this models play blue rays disc: Pioneer BDP-140 , Pioneer BDP-150,Pioneer BDP-52FD/BDP-440
1858820
Yes. It will play CDs. Optical drives like this Samsung are ALL backward compatible to older disc formats. If it plays Bluray, it will play DVD and if it plays DVD, it will play CD.* *Because they still build all Bluray (blue laser) optical drives with DVD/CD (red lasers) as well
977095
Yes it will play both dvd and blu ray disc's but it can not burn blu ray disc's
317477
I think so. I don't have the DVD player anymore. I bought a blue ray player. You are better off getting a blue ray player because you can play blue rays and DVDs in them. Plus for blue ray the picture is better. Anyway blue rays are becoming more popular.
1861217
Yes you can. I hooked up my blu-ray DVD player so I can watch blu-ray movies. So I would assume you can hook up any dvd player. I suggest to at least try it to make sure. Hope this was helpful.
2015409
Yes, it does. All blu-ray players should be able to play both formats. You just can't play a blu-ray in a standard dvd player.
2045808
Yes. However this model will not burn DVDS but will write CD-R and CD-RW formats and reads standard DVDS. I do not believe it can support any HD (blue ray) video formats as is.
328598
NO it does not play Blue Ray disks. It has a "DVD-SuperMulti Drive" that plays/records anything from CD-R's up to DVD+RW (Re-Write) disks. A laptop that would play Blue Ray's would say it has a BD-ROM optical drive.
680738
Yes, I have successfully played DVDs on this model. The user manual says it plays DVD-video, DVD-R, DVD-R DL in addition to Blu-ray. It also plays CDs, SD cards, and USB media.
334800
I always thought a Blue Ray player was different from a DVD player. Don't have any blue ray discs so wouldn't know. Sorry can't help you further. But it does play British and U.S. DVD's.