Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 23rd Feb 2008 11:29 UTC
The time may come where you will have to burn both a Blu-Ray disc for your family, and an HD-DVD disc for your boss who got hurried out and bought that HD-DVD player just so he can show off to all of you who waited for the format war outcome. Besides, while the HD format war is over, there are still over 1.3 million HD-DVD devices out there. I have modified some HD authoring methods found on the net in a way that 80% of the work to be done is the same for both formats, and with the rest 20% of the work only taking an additional 10 minutes for each format to be muxed and burned. Blu-Ray method is here, and the HD-DVD method is here (methods are identical up to step #7). Not only that, but you won't even need an HD burner, as these methods exercise plain DVD-R discs and they are using freeware tools.
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It is not possible unfortunately. You might get lucky though if you follow the HD-DVD guide and export at 720p instead of 1080i. *Some* Blu-Ray players might be able to playback a 720p stream burned in a DVD format as described in the HD-DVD tutorial. But this is not for sure...
This 80% similarity described on both tutorials, with a 10 minutes of extra work for each format, is possibly the closest we can come to a common format.
Edited 2008-02-23 12:08 UTC
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2005-06-29
These are nice guides...
But what I REALLY wanted was a HD-DVD and BluRay compatible HD format title...
okay, okay... enough with dreams... =]