playing burnt dvd's

[deadgirl]

so aynway just joined this to see if anyone can shed some light on the situation....
i wanna get a blu ray player but......was wondering will it play downloaded movies and if i need to have a HD TV in order to view downloaded movies that are in HD DVD format????
thanks

[Baldrick]

A blu-ray player wont read hd-dvd(or do you mean blu-ray?). But you might be able to remux the hd-dvd to blu-ray format using tsmuxer, ripbot264 but it's lot of work.

[jman98]

You do not need an HDTV to view BluRay movies on a BluRay player, but not having an HDTV defeats the purpose of having a BluRay player.

It's impossible to guarantee you that downloaded movies will play on a BluRay player. It depends on what format the movies are in and whether your BluRay player supports that format or not. Divx/Xvid support is growing in BluRay players, but other formats (H.264, WMV) won't be supported at all without conversion. BluRay players may not support the older VCD and SVCD formats, but you probably won't be downloading those.

[deadgirl]

ok so......is there much of a difference in the quality of picture if i were to watch bluray on just a normal widescreen tv???

[ZippyP.]

.....is there much of a difference in the quality of picture if i were to watch bluray on just a normal widescreen tv???

As opposed to a regular DVD on just a normal widescreen tv. Probably no difference since the bluray is being downconverted for your regular (non-hd) tv.