No, it doesn't. If the television has an HDMI input, it will handle HD signals and display them at the television's native resolution. For the best quality, the television will be a 1080 line resolution.
If the television is a standard definition model, then it will need to use analog connections from the player which don't support HD. Any disc will be displayed at standard definition only in this case.
Yes, the Toshiba C55T does play the bluray.
Yes all bluray drives will play cds.
A DVD player cannot play a BluRay disc. A BluRay player can play both BluRay discs and DVDs.
No
Yes, BluRay DVD players also play non Blu-Ray DVDs with no problem.
No. You need a BluRay player that specifically says it can read 3-D disks
Yes
Currently, no. You should get a PS3 to do that.
No, it will not play Bluray discs, but it is upscaling, so you can watch your regular DVDs at HD quality.
DVD players cannot play Bluray discs. The lasers and the data storage are different so no data can be read from a Bluray disc in a DVD drive. That is the case whether or not there is any up-scaling available in the player. Bluray players on the other hand are quite happy to play DVDs as well as Bluray discs.
ps3 games are bluray disc
No. All current 3D disc content is HD and so use Bluray discs. You have to have a 3D Bluray player.