the Blu-ray player I have plays DVDs as well, and it's not region set... only had it for like 10+ years and always thought it did just Blu-ray [smacks forehead] :)

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the Blu-ray player I have plays DVDs as well, and it's not region set... only had it for like 10+ years and always thought it did just Blu-ray [smacks forehead] :)

"Not region set" is pretty sweet. ;)


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Re: Today I found out...
By: Avon to All on Tue Mar 25 2025 09:36 pm

the Blu-ray player I have plays DVDs as well

As far as I know, that's true about all blu-ray players.

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Re: Today I found out...
By: Avon to All on Tue Mar 25 2025 09:36 pm

the Blu-ray player I have plays DVDs as well, and it's not region set... only had it for like 10+ years and always thought it did just Blu-ray [smacks forehead] :)

As far as I was always aware, all blu-ray players can play DVDs too. I don't know if I had read that somewhere or just assumed they'd be backwards compatible. It makes sense they'd be backwards compatible; otherwise, I don't think many people would want to buy/keep a separate blu-ray player and DVD player.

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Re: Today I found out...
By: Avon to All on Tue Mar 25 2025 09:36 pm

the Blu-ray player I have plays DVDs as well, and it's not region set... only had it for like 10+ years and always thought it did just Blu-ray [smacks forehead] :)

It can probably play music CDs too.

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When I went to the UK, there are a few BluRays that only play Europe onry stuff. Which killed my joy.


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On 25 Mar 2025 at 08:32a, Dumas Walker pondered and said...

"Not region set" is pretty sweet. ;)

That's what I thought, still that's what the docs say... I have yet to test it.

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On 25 Mar 2025 at 09:52a, Nightfox pondered and said...

the Blu-ray player I have plays DVDs as well

As far as I know, that's true about all blu-ray players.

..and (I kid you not) for years I've not realised - sigh :)

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On 25 Mar 2025 at 10:00a, Nightfox pondered and said...

It can probably play music CDs too.

so says the manual too... will report back.. off to find some ABBA :)

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On 25 Mar 2025 at 08:28p, Utopian Galt pondered and said...

As far as I know, that's true about all blu-ray players.

When I went to the UK, there are a few BluRays that only play Europe onry stuff. Which killed my joy.

I guess many devices can be set to a specific region only. I recall the PC I had, had a DVD player you could change the region setting... but it was a 5 times max change deal and then that was it.

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the Blu-ray player I have plays DVDs as well, and it's not region set... only had it for like 10+ years and always thought it did just Blu-ray [smacks forehead] :)

Nope, all BR players (including gaming consoles) play DVD just fine as well.
At least all known to me.

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Re: Re: Today I found out...
By: hollowone to Avon on Sun May 11 2025 08:51 am

the Blu-ray player I have plays DVDs as well, and it's not region set...
only had it for like 10+ years and always thought it did just Blu-ray
[smacks forehead] :)

Nope, all BR players (including gaming consoles) play DVD just fine as well. At least all known to me.

That's the advantage of having the media being the same size (CDs, DVDs, blu-rays, and 4K blu-rays); they can design the players to be backwards-compatible.

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