I know this is probably a very silly question, but I can't seem to look it up online without getting stuff about the filming end instead of the watching end.

If a disc says "Shot in HD," that's actually pretty meaningless these days right? I don't care about if it looks exactly like the director intended and all... just as long as it plays.

Am I correct that it should do so without problems? less

Short answer: yes, you should.

Longer answer: It actually doesn't matter if it blue-ray or a regular DVD. Since you said you had a blue-ray player, all blue-rays to the best of my knowledge are backwards compatible link with DVDs, thus all blue ray player should be able to play stranded DVDS. It not mandatory that they be backwards compatible with DVDs so it possible to get some weird one that doesn't but that a unlikely. less

I think the answer is no you can't play a regular DVD on a blueray player, but to be sure I looked it up...

"Answer: Since the Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD formats are incompatible, due to differences in actual physical disc structure, you cannot play a Blu-ray Disc in an HD-DVD format player, nor can you play an HD-DVD in a Blu-ray Disc format player."

They also say that there WERE three players designed to do that, but since HD-DVD is no longer being made (I didn't know this) those were discontinued.

But it also says..."However, so far, both Blu-ray and HD-DVD player manufacturers have included the ability for their units to playback standard DVDs. This means your current DVD library is playable on either a Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD player."

So...if it is a HD-DVD it will not play. But if it is a regular DVD simply shot in HD it will play.

LOL so confusing. less

Ahhhhgh! See that's exactly what I read, too! It's not until the very end there that it becomes clear.

I think it's mostly a matter of directors being pretentious. If a movie was shot in HD and you had the HD player and you had the HD TV, then you'd be able to see the movie "as the director intended." link. (Remind me not to do that when I make movies, k? Cuz that's just annoying). But if you didn't have all that crap, you could still see it. Saying it's shot in HD is just like saying it's shot on 8 mm or 16 mm film... I think.

I believe it's really a matter of talking about 2 different things, but using the same name to confuse everyone. LoL.

Anyway, that movie can wait. I'll test it out with a cheap rental sometime before I order the $30 thing.

Thanks ya'll! less

It is less about the directors on more about the marketing department. You got it mostly right only "Saying it's shot in HD is just like saying it's shot on 8 mm or 16 mm film... I think." Actually it basically saying it not shot on traditional film but is instead shot digitally using an HD camera at HD resolutions. So any copy of that film made from that original was technically "shot in HD."

For you to actually get the benefits of HD the movie has to be shot in HD, encoded into an HD format (blue-Ray) and played on an HD TV.

Take this porn for example in comes both in DVD and blue -ray link , link

The movie was shot in HD (they used an HD camera), so that why you see shot in HD on both. However DVDs are stranded definition no matter what, so it only encoded in HD on the blue ray. Now for you to see that in HD you need an HD (full 1080) display. To illustrate I have a dual monitor set up, my laptop screen is full HD so when I play the blueray on that screen I'm seeing the movie in HD, however if I move the window to the other monitor I'm no logger seeing it in HD because that monitor can't display that high a resolution. less