The answer is of course, YES. Blu-ray burners, on standard, are backward compatible to DVD and CD formats, unless some manufacturer purposely made them not able to, which I don't see the point why. The only difference between various Blu-ray burners, is the speed that they can write to these formats.
I have a DIGISTOR external Blu-Ray burner on my system, and it writes to all formats, albeit on different speeds. all the speeds are pretty fast on my drive though. Hope that helps.
Yes, normally a BlueRay-burner, which can also read DVDs, can burn them.
Just as a player like the PS3 has the capability to play the DVDs and Cds along with the Blue Ray discs and a DVD writer can also write Cds
ALL Blu-ray Players can play DVDs and CDs thanks to the backwards compatibility feature that is built into them.
Yes, Blu-Ray players can play DVDs and CDs
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Yes, BluRay DVD players also play non Blu-Ray DVDs with no problem.
Yes. Some Blu-Ray players can even play photo CDs and some can even display data on SD cardsAll players can, but not the very early ones (the first ones were manufactured in 2006)All Blu-Ray players can play DVDs and CDs
Yes. DVD players can play music CDs. Blu-Ray players can also play DVDs and music CDs as well
No and HD DVDs have been permanently discontinued
DVD players and drives cannot handle Bluray discs, whether recording to them or reading from them. Bluray players and drives on the other hand can use DVD discs as well as Bluray discs.
Yes. DVD players can play music CDs. Blu-ray Players can also play DVDs and music CDs as well
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.
The laser that is in most DVD players can also read CDs, which is why most DVD players can play audio CDs. The laser in straight CD players cannot read DVDs.
HD DVD and Bluray are both high definition disc formats but they were not only competitive formats but incompatible formats as well. While the battle for the HD market was in progress a handful of players were sold that would support both formats. These players were expensive and very few were ever sold. Unfortunately, HD DVD only players will not play Bluray and Bluray players will not play HD DVD discs. It is still worth keeping HD DVD players as they are the only players capable of HD DVD discs.
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A DVD player cannot play a BluRay disc. A BluRay player can play both BluRay discs and DVDs.
All of the DVD players that I have ever seen will play music CDs as well.