None of the media coverage about all this seems to mention the one thing I care about. Will my existing collection of DVDs run on these new machines? I have no need for higher definition or “new functionalities”. I’m just sick of electronic media marketers making everybody’s collections obsolete every few years. It’s getting difficult to find a CD player already.
Ther is one safe bet if you want a Blu Ray player that will keep up.
The PS3 is perhaps one of the better Blu Ray players on the market due to its upgradeablity and general hardware decoding power.
It also offers the best results in upscaling standard DVDs.
I have one that I use as my primary movie player. It also has an advantage in that sooner or later there may be a PS3 game worth playing.
yes bluray and HD-DVD players will play old dvd’s just fine.
On all the crapola commercials for blu ray, they say that regular dvd's will play on "existing" blu ray players.
Every few years? The compact disk has been on the market for over 25 years.
The DVD has been around for 15 years, and isn't likely to disappear real soon yet.
The Blu-Ray players I have seen also play DVDs and even audio CDs. However, even if they didn't cheap DVD players will still be available for quite some time.
Not only will your old DVDs play on it, but some (if not all) of the Blue Ray players upgrade your old DVDs, to show them on HDTV televisions.
I am amazed at the quality of the picture I get from my old DVDs.
The Blue Ray formatted DVDs are excellent, but I’m probably not going to go out and purchase all my new movies in that format for now. The price will have to drop before I will go that route.
My current DVD player plays dvds,cds, but more importantly to me, it plays SACDs and DVD-A which I hope any future Blu-Ray player will read and play too. Especially SACD.