Not quite clear on what you mean by HD DVD player. I have a standard DVD player and a Blu-Ray player. Obviously the standard player will only play mpeg-2 DVDs The Blu-Ray player will play AVCHD as well as Blu-Ray. You can burn an AVCHD DVD on a standard burner. i.e. You don't need a BR burner.
I use Corel VideoStudio Pro X7. I use the AVC/H.264 option to render the edited files, this creates an AVCHD .m2t file. This file can then be burnt to a standard DVD disk or (as I do) stored on a SD card which will then play in my BR player. This is the best you can get without a Blu-Ray burner.
I'm capturing about 27 gb (1 1/2 hours) of video and then using Adobe PE12 to edit it and burn to a 4.7 gb DVD..... I feel I lose a tremendous amount of image quality this way. What is the best way to have a above average video image on DVD for playback on typical HD DVD players?
Is it even possible to have the playback image I see when playing my MP4 files from my hard drive?

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