Burning HD video files onto standard DVD's??

You will have a video but not in HD. The only DVD's to play high-def are Blu Ray and HD DVD and there are no consumer level recorders. I am wondering if you could record your video back to a TIVO or Comcast box - which can record in HD.

Good luck

Not only the file size, but the throughput. Standard DVD can't sustain the data rate needed for HD.

Hi(Bonjour)!

You cannot monitor HDV from FCE HD to TV monitor through camcorder.

Visit Roxio's site. I remember that Roxio Toast can burn HD content on Divx format on regular DVD blanks:
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html

Michel Boissonneault

That would be interesting to see. It doesn't refer to DivX HD specifically, which as far as I can see is on a PC only, though it does go down to 4Mbps for 720p material.

If HD content could be burned to a standard DVD, then Blu Ray and HD DVD would just be higher capacity disks. When HD was introduced the missing element was the DVD storage of playable media. I would look closely at the Roxio page. It could just be saying that you can store large video files on a disk - not play the video on your computer. (Also, be sure you have a cinema display - computer screens do not play video very well.)

Hi Bonjour Tom,

As I can see in Toast's 7 manual, yes Dvix is limited to 720 lines for HDV.

I burned one with a 1080i60 material, but I doesn't test it on a player yet.

Michel B.

If you're going to show a video on a large plasma screen I would advise using a DVD player with an HDMI out. You can buy an upconvert video player for around a hundred bucks. You can do your video in widescreen and in straight DV rather than HD and save a lot of headaches. This format looks awfully good. I assume you have some other machine to do the editing and burning. The Powerbook is pretty slow and if you start talking about HD I would guess impossible. I am currently preparing a 21 minute HD video for copying to tape. It's been grinding away for about three hours and it hasn't started copying yet. I have a 2.67 GHz iMac with 4 gigs RAM. HD requires tons of computing power.

The problem is more on the playback end (hardware decoding) than the recording end, but the Play Station 3 will reportedly play HD content burned on conventional DVDs using the MPEG-4 H.264 codec (.mp4 video files).

http://community.eu.playstation.com/archive/index.php/t-74333.html

If you burn a quicktime file on the dvd as a data dvd and not actually create a video dvd then it would work. Quicktime can play HD but a standard DVD is limited to normal resolutions, no hd.