Toast claims to make Blue Ray content on DVD possible. So far, the video does not display using a Sony BD player and Sony TV. Sound comes through OK, so the reader can see the file contents. Same symptoms using either HDMI or Component connection.

Maybe there is an encoding setting to tweak. Roxio support says that they don't give tutorial help and that everything is explained in the help file.

Has anyone else tried this?

Update: Using Verbatim DVD makes it work!

I'm guessing that you have a Sony "component" Blu-ray player, and the firmware is having difficulty reading the HD-DVD. The firmware is notoriously poor in component players, and probably cannot be upgraded, like the firmware in a "PC-drive." PC-drives have bad factory-loaded software too - but usually somebody offers much improved software shortly after product release.

Firmware upgrades are NECESSARY for ALL DVD players. Their functionality is severely limited when new & just out-of-the-box. Don't buy players without an upgrade capability (usually a computer port of some kind). Some "$39 K-Mart Blue-Light" DVD player specials are actually superior to the more expensive component players. Eventually, the hardware (electronics) quality in the K-Mart DVD players becomes becomes as good as the first generation component players as well.

It's a little bit premature to be "tinkering" with High Def disks/cameras/HDTV's/monitors at this point - the technology is still maturing, as is the pricing. Steve Jobs might have been overly optimistic when he stated that 2005 was "The Year of High Def." If we're lucky, it'll probably be 2010, given the state of the world economy. Apple software is certainly not ready for High Def., and there's a great deal of flux in HDTV's, monitors, spec's, cameras, software, etc.

We spent some time reviewing BD/DVD of a wedding last night. Relatives of the bride's family were in town (from Costa Rica) and this was the last chance for them to view it before returning home.

Comparing the AVCHD/BD picture to NTSC was like day and night. No ringing edges, pure unsmudged reds, detail beyond belief!

In no way can I characterize using an AVCHD camera, iMovie, and Toast 9 to put BD content on DVD-R as "tinkering". All of the videography/post production work flow was identical to that for producing NTSC DVD content with the sole exception of using HD/BD settings (and those the defaults) to produce the BD data and structure.

I can agree that the big Sony LCD TV and the Sony BD/DVD player are not cheap. But, assuming the end user has these things, these are made useful without the producer's investment in a BD burner. In fact, the only new things used in the production chain were the Toshiba AVCHD camera and the BD plugin for Toast 9. Someday, when BD burners fit the production budget, the primary difference will be in the content capacity, not the content itself.

It aint "tinkering" to make a production usable by the customers HD TV and BD player.

It aint "tinkering" when using a newer camera makes the end user happy.

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It's a little bit premature to be "tinkering" with High Def disks/cameras/HDTV's/monitors at this point

The end users BD player in this case is firmware-upgradeable over the network. The problem we had with video was fixed around by changing from a Staples generic DVD-R to our favorite Verbatim printable DVD-R.