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Posted by Smarty on 11/12/06 21:22
first sentence typo in my prior post "make do distinction" should have read
"make no distinction"
sorry
"Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
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> Gary,
>
> The Toshiba / RCA HD DVD Set-top Players (as well as the Macintosh with
> the right software installed) make do distinction between a blue or a red
> laser disk. If a disk has the right format (UDF 1.5 and above) and the
> right contents (the correct folder and directory structure), then the disk
> and all of its' glorious content will play properly.
>
> Therefore, the author needs to do two things to make an HD DVD. The first
> is to construct a disk with all of the proper content so that menus,
> tracks, sound, etc. will be properly coded. The second is that a DVD has
> to be burned with the proper UDF format. Both of these steps require very
> inexpensive and readily available software. I have been doing this for
> almost a year, in fact.
>
> The disks are limited in how much they will contain, since the red laser
> DVDs and burners we have been using in home computers since 2001 can only
> hold a small fraction of the blue laser capacity. Thus the disk you make
> will hold either 23 or 46 minutes of total play time depending on whether
> you use single or double layer blanks. For home movies this is (in my
> opinion) a blessing in disguise, since most home movies are just not worth
> watching more than 46 minutes..........!!
>
> The content I am describing is HDV 25 MBit/sec MPEG2 encoded material. It
> is indistinguishable from the original HDV tape played back directly from
> the camcorder (unless you have the bad taste / bad sense to do multiple
> re-encodings during the editing and authoring stage). If you decide you
> want to take your HDV content and do all sorts of transitions, filters,
> heavy editing. etc., then the final edited HDV may look softer and
> noisier. This is also true of standard def DV video, and good editors and
> authors know how to avoid this type of degradation.
>
> My point is that you can record HDV on a camcorder, do editing and other
> effects (in moderation), write a 46 minute HD DVD, and play it on your
> Toshiba. I do it all the time.
>
> Smarty
>
> "Gary Eickmeier" <geickmei@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:JLG5h.20546$q45.6055@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>>
>>
>> Smarty wrote:
>>
>>> The HD DVD disks we produce can be played on the Toshiba / RCA HD DVD
>>> set-top players or played on a Macintosh which has the DVD Player (free
>>> software) installed along with HD authoring software like DVD Studio Pro
>>> 4. They will not play on a standard DVD player since they are an
>>> entirely different and incompatible format, even though they are
>>> recorded on red laser 4.7 GB DVD blanks.
>>
>> You're saying we can burn HD DVD discs on our computers? Is this the
>> Microsoft MPEG-9 format that I have seen on their site? How long will
>> they play?
>>
>> Gary Eickmeier
>
>
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