No, DVD players cannot play Blu-ray discs. DVDs are written and read with a red light beam (650nm wavelength). Instead, Blue-ray discs use a blue light beam (405nm wavelength), which involves a newer generation technology. Disc players have lasers to read the pits imprinted on Blu-ray discs and DVDs. DVD players have only a red laser to read DVDs. The PS2 was one of the cheapest quality DVD players available. I remember some rich friends had a DVD player prior to that, but for everyone else I knew PS2 was their first DVD player (including me) Curiously the exact same thing would play out with PS3 and Blu Ray a few years later. 5. 9811Deet. DVDs & Blue Rays are locked into 8 different region-specific codes of different territories such as North America & Europe. Although do not worry, in this post I will guide you through how to make your PS4 be able to play all DVD/Blue-ray discs no matter what region and make your console a true multi-regional machine. Edit: Thanks for all the replies! Yes. All disc players can play all the lesser discs. Blu-Ray players also play DVD, and 4K Blu-Ray players also play Blu-Ray and DVD. Yes blu ray players play DVD’s. Some blu ray players upscale DVDs. 4K players play 4K, blu ray and dvd. The 4K players upscale blu ray to 4K and upscale dvd to blu ray. This Both the Blu-ray disc player and the discs are coded by region. The Region Number for your Blu-ray disc player is A. Your Blu-ray disc player will play all Region A and Region Free BDs as well as Region 1 DVD's. The ps4 is a sub-par blu ray player, don't let if form your opinions on disc players in general. A good player, even an Xbox one x, can play a couple of discs a day and be fine. Playing bluray and dvd does not stress a 4k player. Films on Blu-Ray in any region are 1080p24, 1920x1080 progressive video with 24 frames per second. As was mentioned earlier, not all Blu-ray Discs are 1080/24. Short Circuit US is 1080i/60. There are a few titles from Australia that are 1080i/50hz and don't work on US players. Bluray players seem to only have a short life mine lasted only 1.5yrs(500hrs) and I have 4 dvd players that still work and hd dvd player 3yrs old still working. This and some brands needing contant firmware upgrades are a problem and I was adviced not expect long life in bluray players as they use 1 laser for all cd,dvd and bluray this and App Vay Tiền.

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