Can you play hd dvd's or blue ray dvd's

mac mini   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  
i am very new to macs so if you think some of my questions a bit dumb bear with me.
i have my mac mini plugged into my hd plasma tv can i play hd/blueray dvd's and see them how they are meant to be seen. also if i record somthing on my dvd/rec on a rw/dvd the mac tells me it is blank whe it is not any help please

Although this is not an iPhone discussion:
You can play HD-DVD's
it's not competition.
Apple's own professional DVD authoring software DVD Studio Pro 4 allows HD-DVD authoring!
I am DVD Studio Pro certified by  I should know this!
Unfortunately though presently Blu-Ray DVD playback on a Mac is not supported Although Blu-Ray DVD read&write of data on a Mac is supported through Roxio Toast (along w/ a blu-ray DVD drive of course
FWIW, WMV is competition although it can be played on a Mac

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