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Blu-ray discs are written/burned on what is called BD-r discs. Much like the DVDs are burned to DVD-r. As I understand it, Hollywood discs are stamped as opposed to burned and it's done on a DVD-rom type of disc. Same goes for blu-ray onto BD-rom. They implemented stuff to prevent copying and whatnot and there were some limits on early Blu-ray players. If you plan to order a Blu-ray disc off here, you must find out if your player supports the BD-r media. *MOST* all blu-ray players do, but there are some out there that don't list that as supported. If you go to this CNET link you can see all the blu-ray players and under specs you can see the formats they support. http://reviews.cnet.com/blu-ray-dvd-players/ You can see on there BD-r is very widely supported. It's going to be the main thing folks burn to, so companies would be dumb to leave it off. As I understand it, I think some players had firmware upgrades made available later to open up such things if they were disabled because of issues with copying concerns. I think those are downloaded from the maker of the blu-ray player, then that is burned to a cd and one sticks that in the player and wala the firmware upgrade fixes things. Vast majority just won't have any issues as BD-r is extremely supported now. Another BD-r compatibility list: http://www.summationtechnology.com/blu-ray-player-compatibility-chart.htm Anyway it should be rare to have a player that doesn't play BD-r discs. Plays fine in my Sony. If you can't find your player and its specs on the formats it supports on that link, I'm sure sticking its model number in a google search would turn it up pretty quickly. |