Can a BD-9 disc be created with a conventional DVD burner on a PC? BD-9s are simply single or dual layer DVDs (4.7 or 8.5 GB discs) and so I assume that one could create a small or ~13Mb VBR project and burnt it onto a regual DVD for playback on a set top Blu-Ray player (or PS3). Has anyone tried this or, in fact, gotten this to work?

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Yes.

Blu ray and HD DVD are quite capable of playing HD from red laser media. Pinnacle studio 11.1 and Ulead Video Studio 11 will create these disks.

I don't do Blu ray but rather HD DVD's. You can fit about 40 minutes of HD on a double layer disk with no special burning equipment. However after the burn, you MUST play them back in the Toshiba HD players... they will not play back on your computer (unless you have a HD DVD burner.... already in laptops and due to come out for desk tops in August or September)

With HD DVD you can fully author disks and even include DD5.1 sound. Blu ray is not quite as sophisticated with red laser disks but you can edit your material and get it on disk for playback in the PS3, or any other blu ray player.

And of course.... the detail and sharpness from either format is nothing short of stunning!