HD-DVD Burners?

[Scott M]

Does anyone know of one available for purchase anywhere?

Seen some Blu-Ray burners, but no HD-DVD...

[Häakon]

There are two models available only in Japan, to my knowledge. What's funny is that even without drives on the shelves, I have seen blank HD DVD media in a few scattered places like Fry's Electronics.

Blu-ray is the much better bet as burners are not only much more available but the capacity is 40% larger - meaning more room for data storage or the potential for less compression in your playable video.

[Tom Lowe]

This is a travesty that they have not put out HD-DVD burners and players for PCs. Who is running this operation, Captain Kangaroo?

[John Tissavary]

This is a travesty that they have not put out HD-DVD burners and players for PCs. Who is running this operation, Captain Kangaroo?

I have the nagging suspicion that this is an attempt by the HD-DVD consortium members to delay the flood of pirated discs that'll surely hit the streets when burners become available.

The disparity between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD burners at the consumer level is definitely curious & annoying.

sigh... long live the format wars...

cheers,

jt

[Gavin Greenwalt]

If it's short form video you want to burn I think you can burn the HD-DVD formatting onto a normal DVD-R and it should playback.

[Gavin Greenwalt]

It's also somewhat logical.

HD-DVDs look imo just as good as Blu-Ray. But if you want a burner it's probably for data. In that regard Blu-Ray smokes HD-DVD.

Pushing HD-DVD as a data format and not just a movie format seems like it would be a pretty uphill battle.

[Scott M]

It'd just be nice considering the HD-DVD option currently built-in to DVD Studio Pro. We've tried burning HD-DVD encodes onto the DVD-R as mentioned and it does work fine, but it'd be nice to have the ability to produce a full length HD-DVD, it is an odd maneuver on Toshiba's part to delay...

[Frank Mirbach]

Why would you go for a HD DVD burner ? Wouldn´t it be better to go for Blue Ray ? I mean, it´s got way more capacity...

[Scott M]

Why would you go for a HD DVD burner ? Wouldn´t it be better to go for Blue Ray ? I mean, it´s got way more capacity...

Mainly because it's easier, as I mentioned, the capability to author is already included in DVD Studio Pro, and from what I've read, authoring BR is a pain.

Also, from what I've seen the images are basically impossible to tell apart. So in the end, I'm not concerned with putting tons of extras (not impressed with the extra 10gigs on BR), I just want to put the HD movie on the disc in the easiest way to incorporate to my current workflow (which is Apple/DVD Studio Pro).

[Craig W. Bickerstaff]

Mainly because it's easier, as I mentioned, the capability to author is already included in DVD Studio Pro, and from what I've read, authoring BR is a pain.

Also, from what I've seen the images are basically impossible to tell apart. So in the end, I'm not concerned with putting tons of extras (not impressed with the extra 10gigs on BR), I just want to put the HD movie on the disc in the easiest way to incorporate to my current workflow (which is Apple/DVD Studio Pro).

DVD SP doesn't actually make HD DVDs it creates it's own kinda little format that only works on DVD player in macs.
And don't listen to what some nut said about BD authoring do some actual research on the development applications.