Recording HD Conent Onto DVD

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Stan Jacobs (nospam@mailbox.com) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> I want to be able to transfer conent recorded onto an HD DVR
> to any type of DVD recorder,either using component or S-Video
> outputs/inputs,and get playback from these DVDs that at least
> matches the picture quality one gets from a commercial DVD played
> at 480p.
>
> Are there any DVD recorders available today that can make such
> DVDs and,if not,is there anything in the pipeline?

At high enough bitrate, it should be easy to do.

I convert HD recordings to DVD-standard MPEG-2 at about 6Mbps and they
look as good as most DVDs. At 9Mbps, they look as good as any DVD out
there.

So, just get a DVD recorder and crank up the quality level. The only
real problem is that none of them support recording DVDs as "enhanced for
16x9 TVs". The conversion I do *does* support this, so I get a lot more
quality for the same bitrate.

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