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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