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Yes, blue-ray players can play regular DVDs. However, regular DVD players cannot play Blue-ray DVDs.
Yes.
Yes, Blu-Ray players can play regular DVDs.
All Blu-Ray players can play DVDs
Yes - but, of course, they won't play in 3D
Yes, all blu-ray players can play standard DVDs.
Yes, it does
Blu-Ray players can also play regular DVDs and music CDs
No, regular DVD players can not play HD DVDs. We need an HD DVD player. - Neeraj Sharma
You have to have writable DVD's in order to be able to record on to them; there is no way to get around that aspect of it. Regular DVD's play or allow access to what is stored on them; a write can record to a DVD-RW but can not record or store to a regular DVD.
All DVDs can play on Blu-Ray players
Yes. All players are "backward compatible", so a 3D Blu-Ray player can play regular Blu-Ray, regular DVDs and even CDs.