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HD DVDs - help?
emweaver
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does anyone know if you can play HD DVDS on a standard dvd player?
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Yes, and you can't.That gum you like is coming back in style.0
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presumably"yes , he does know " and the answer is "no, you cant "0
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Completely different technologies. It's equivalent to seeing if you can play DVDs on a CD player. It's a next gen (now dead) optical disc format that uses a blue laser. DVD drives don't even have a blue laser in them so pretty much just physically impossible so the same goes for Blu Ray discs as well."She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
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so whats the diff between hd dvds and blue ray dvds?
ive bought a dvd player with hd upscaling so do i buy hd dvds or normal? im really dumb when it comes to techi stuff so pls bear with meWins so far this year: Mum to be bath set, follow me Domino Dog, Vital baby feeding set, Spiderman goody bag, free pack of Kiplings cakes, £15 love to shop voucher, HTC Desire, Olive oil cooking spray, Original Source Strawberry Shower Gel, Garnier skin care hamper, Marc Jacobs fragrance.0 -
Just DVD's, what your player does is improve the resolution of normal dvd's for use on a HDTVIt is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.0
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so whats the diff between hd dvds and blue ray dvds?
ive bought a dvd player with hd upscaling so do i buy hd dvds or normal? im really dumb when it comes to techi stuff so pls bear with me
As Psycence says it's still only a DVD player and can only play DVDs. Upscaling is just that, it scales up the existing standard definition picture to appear high definition (although not quite). Not the same as the "HD DVD" technology format. Blu Ray uses similar technology (also a blue laser) but was a competing format by a different group of companies. It uses different standards (and if you really want to go into detail, slightly different aperture settings etc on the laser) although it was technically possible to make drives that played both it's not really economical. But that's a moot point since HD DVD is now completely dead and Blu Ray the successor to the optical disc medium.
But to reiterate a DVD player that upscales to HD is not the same as a HD DVD player. I admit it's confusing (and I've always been irked that the format was decided to be called "HD DVD" just because it got the backing of the DVD consortium). An upscaling DVD player is still just a DVD player (red/infrared laser) just with a bit more processing and an HDMI (high definition cable) socket on the back."She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
Moss0
Do you mean yes you can? Or no you cant? 
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