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Originally Posted by {OF}MillerTime
do blu-ray players play any type of DVD or only blu-ray?
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they play any dvd but the upscale is horrendous on them currently. I read it has to do something about the firmware. I wouldnt be quick to buy either format until they get the bugs figured out (which I havent seen any with the xbox hd dvd but thats the only player people dont seem to have problems with). Also its not known weather the old players will play the new size disks from blue ray (80 gig) and HD DVD (60gig).
What I think is funny is Fox just pulled all but 2 of their intended Blue ray releases. Wonder if they did that because sony cant get their ***'s in gear and actually implement a working BD+ encryption. One thing about Blue ray is 50% of the movies are upconverted compared to only about 5% with HD DVD (that would be the ones that were filmed like 20 years ago unlike some of the present ones on Blue Ray). Whats the point in going Blue ray if all the studios are going to do is upconvert the movie? Its like buying an overpriced DVD when they do that. The thing Blue Ray has is storage space and I have a feeling that Blue ray wont go away because of higher storage capacity.