North America uses NTSC colour encoding at 59.94Hz, while Europe uses PAL at 50Hz. Additionally, US DVDs are zoned to prevent them being used in other parts of the world. To play a US DVD on a Dutch system, you need: 1 An NTSC compatible DVD player 2 An NTSC compatible television 3 A multi-zone DVD player. The only way to establish if you have all three is to check the manuals for each.
All DVDs can play on Blu-Ray players
Since all Blu-Ray players can play DVDs, they would play like any other player
Yes, blue-ray players can play regular DVDs. However, regular DVD players cannot play Blue-ray DVDs.
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.
Yes
Yes.
Yes, Blu-Ray players can play regular DVDs.
All Blu-Ray players can play DVDs
Yes
Yes, all blu-ray players can play standard DVDs.
Yes - but, of course, they won't play in 3D
First, Blu-Rays are not DVDs. People should not get the two mixed up. Blu-Ray discs will only play on Blu-Ray players and those will only work on HDTVs. Blu-Ray players can play DVDs, but DVD players are not compatible with Blu-Ray