Question: Can you play HD DVDs on regular DVD players ?
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No. But some HD-DVD titles are released in combo disc... meaning that side A is HD-DVD and side B is regular DVD. That way you can play the discs regardless of your player. No Hi-def format can simply be played on a regular DVD player. They use a different type of laser DVD players do not have.
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Thats like getting a lambo with with a smartcar engine under the hood. You can do that but you wont have the quality of a hd picture. Just when you have to select picture quality select 480. Most players have the outputs you will need to connect it.Only do it if your real close to buying a hdtv. If your waiting til xmas sales or after first of the year i would buy a cheap dvd player as the prices for bluray players and coming down.
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ALL upconverting players will ONLY upconvert dvd discs with copy protection or any original ones. Dvds (re)mastered in high definition will SPECIALLY look amazing.
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Yes. In most cases you'll have no other choice. Whether your device plays the movies, though, is up to the device. The camera lets you save the hi-def videos to the AVI file format and some DVD players will play these, but most play only the XVID AVI format. There's a program called Mov Converter that should let you convert many files to playable DVD formats.
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Yes, but you'd be better off with a regular blu ray player, unless you've got a substantial HDDVD collection.
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And in addition to Paulos comment If you are thinking about buying another player then look somewhere else as even though this will up convert standard dvd to near hd, the hd dvd's are not produced any more and only a handful of titles are available in places like ebay. It is better than a standard dvd player but with so much blue ray readily available I would go with a blue ray player that will also play your standard dvd library.
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For some DVD players, you can go online and research HOW to get your DVD player to play all types of DVDs. Once you "format" the DVD player for one region, it's probably not worth the effort to switch it to play another format.
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Hi Jorge, HD DVD is region free (unlike Blu-Ray which may be region restricted). But for standard DVDs, the HD-A35 from Amazon will play only Region 1 DVDs and Region Free DVDs. The HD-A35 will not play DVDs with other Region settings, e.g., Region 2, 3, 4, etc.
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As of right now HD-DVD does not use region encoding. That is not to say it will not be implemented in the future, but for now any HD-DVD disk can be played in any HD-DVD player.
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I don't think so.But, as I am concerned, I wouls not rebuy that player.Cannot read many many DVD Blu ray.
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Hi, this item can play regular DVD wonderfully. But this item cannot support digital tv signal, just analog tv signal as stated.
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No you must have a blu-ray burner. Blu-ray burners will burn DVD's, but not the other way around.
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Hi Jorge,HD DVD is region free (unlike Blu-Ray which may be region restricted).But for standard DVDs, the HD-A35 from Amazon will play only Region 1 DVDs and Region Free DVDs. The HD-A35 will not play DVDs with other Region settings, e.g., Region 2, 3, 4, etc.
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WTH!My HD DVD players will start at the point where you stop it.Of course since they don't make HD DVD any more because Sony cornered the market on High Definition DVD's we're stuck with their problematic Bluray disc players.And why can't they make a bluray that can also play a HD DVD?Anyway thanks for the feedback Knocker!
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Component does support 720p (and even 1080i) but when part of an upconverting DVD player, all players are limited to 480p on component outs when playing standard DVD. The reason for this is the movie studios don't want you to be able to upconvert DVDs in the analog component domain as one can easily make high quality copies (bootlegs) with this method. When upconverted video is sent out the HDMI cable, it has content protection, called HDCP, to keep people from making high quality copies.Now you are getting the most out of your player, good for you.
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I know this is an old question but in case anyone new is looking I just want to clarify that yes it will play regular DVD's (NTSC only - does not play PAL) and it will automatically up convert them to HD. However, and Amazon still has not fixed the false claim that it will convert non-3D DVD/Blu Ray to 3D. If a film is not in 3D this will NOT magically create a 3D version.
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You probably won't like this answer. I could only get the player to work on one or two DVDs. I did lots of googling to try to find a fix. Nothing worked. I ended up just trashing it, since it was so cheap. Lesson learned. Find a used one at Goodwill or pay more for a decent unit. You gets what ya pay for.