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Blue Ray DVD player...?

My father recently bought a Sharp Blue Ray DVD to go with Sharp HD TV, why is an entirely different question, He can't hear or see very well. Anyhow, he ask if I could install it and I being of the male gender naturally said 'yes'. Now I know nothing of these things and to be honest don't care but he's my Dad. Now here's the problem, he also bought a HDMI cable that I used in installation and his disc would not play. I reattached the older cabling from the replaced DVD, changed the input selection and they play fine. Now I find out he has no Blue Ray discs yet. So I am wondering is the HDMI connection for Blue Ray only? Or did I screw something up?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Blu-ray players will play DVDs, so although you won't get the true Blu-ray picture quality, you can at least get it working. Attach the HDMI cable from the "HDMI out" on the Blu-ray player to the "HDMI in" on the back of the TV. Then cycle through the input sources on the TV remote until you see the movie playing.

    On another note, many Blu-ray players require firmware updates right out of the box to bring the software up to date. Visit this site to see if the Sharp player requires an update:

    http://www.blu-ray.com/firmware/

  • nealon
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    confident by way of fact that HD DVD misplaced out Blue Ray is presently the only finished HD format all movie studios will produce movies on, ultimately you will no longer have a decision yet to purchase a blue ray participant similar to VHS is now impossible to discover. i think of the only attainable contender now which could furnish up it is that we pass remote from actual media all mutually and acquire video clips in spite of the undeniable fact that individuals % to purchase something actual.

  • 1 decade ago

    First, it's blu ray.

    Blu ray is not DVD.

    But all blu ray players will play DVDs.

    HDMI will carry any signal that the player puts out, no worries you are fine.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    dvds will play on the blu ray, yes, and i didn't notice u spelled blu ray wrong until the last guy said so

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