Can you watch a Blue-Ray on a regular DVD player?

[Kerrytravelers]

I know you won't get all the bells and whistles of a Blue-Ray, but can you at least see and hear the movie?

Thanks! :hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. No, but a Blu-Ray player can play regular DVDs.

[LeftyMom]

2. No, but they sometimes are packaged with a regular DVD.

[Orsino]

3. Absolutely not. n/t

[HopeHoops]

4. No.

[krispos42]

5. Blu-Ray uses a shorter-wavelength laser than DVD.

Since the wavelength determines how "fine" the laser can read, it also determines how small they can make the dots that are burned onto a disl. A Blu-Ray laser can read the dots burned on a Blu-Ray disc. However, the courser (longer wavelength) DVD laser can't read the dots... they're too small for the DVD laser to read.

That's why newer stuff is backwards-compatable. The newer, finer laser can read the older, courser dots just fine. However, the older, courser lasers can't read the newer, finer data dots. That's why a DVD player can also play CDs, but a CD player can't read a DVD.

If you want to go analog, imagine trying to play a phonograph record with a knitting needle. Won't work... the knitting needle is too big to read the grooves in the vinyl.

Hope this helps...

[Kerrytravelers]

6. Thanks everyone!

I wanted to check before I picked up The Wolfman.

:hi: