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According to the companies involved, the format had been agreed to avoid the debacle we’re seeing with recordable DVD formats. Sadly nothing’s as simple as it seems, and when you scratch beneath the surface you discover not everyone buys into the format. Complicating matters further, the DVD Forum (which oversees the recordable DVD format) is also looking into developing red laser for the next-generation replacement for DVD - not blue laser.

You can burn any type of file to DVD or CD for file transfer or back-up. but it most likely won’t play on a set-top player. VCDs are considered below-VHS quality and never really caught on in the States; with the low cost of blank DVD media, they most likely never will. Another consideration is bit rate. Though video bit rate on a DVD can be set as high as 9.8Mbps (without audio), pushing it above 8.5 might be asking for trouble with some players.

Deliver High Definition Footage Immediately — Without A PC

Transfer your high definition footage to DVD, quickly and easily — without a PC. The Sony VRDVC30 connects with virtually any camcorder, VCR, even Digital Video Recorders (DVR). Enhanced connectivity to Sony HDD Handycam® allows aD video or just what’s new since last DVD burn to be recorded at up to 6X speed. Supports 16:9 wide screen and 4:3 full screen aspect ratio and Dolby® Digital 2 channel or 5.1 channel surround sound with compatible camcorders.

The right-hand side of the screen includes a palette of supplied templates, images for backgrounds, buttons and frames. You can also import your own layered menus as PSD files and define the menu areas with DVDit Pro HD’s Highlight Tool. An attributes area (think “inspector” or “properties” if you’re used to tools from other software publishers) shows you practically all of the important details about a particular asset, and allows you to control pretty much everything, including menu linking, button routing and end of play behavior. If you have text selected, this is where you choose fonts, sizes, justification, attributes, etc. The very bottom of the DVDit Pro HD window provides a bit budget tool that allows you to see how much room you’d have if you burned your project to several DVD flavors (single-layer, dual-layer, authoring, RAM or mini) or to a Blu-ray Disc. There’s also a checkbox for OpenDVD, which adds additional data to the burned disc that allows it to be edited further on another computer running a Sonic/Roxio disc authoring tool.