I think the mini HD-DVD may be limited to Mpeg2. I have just become aware of the new HD-DVD spec (approved in September 2007) called "HD Rec". This allows the writing of AVCHD (e.g. Mpeg4) to standard red laser DVD media and playing back on an HD-DVD player. Theoretically, this allows up to 2 hours of HiDef content on a standard 4.7gb DVD. It is unclear to me at this point if current Toshiba HD-DVD players with the latest firmware support this yet but it does hold hope for the future. I have emailed Nero support about this but I'm not sure I'll get a useful answer from them on this topic.
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Chris Barker @ Dec 20th 2007 12:38PM
I think the mini HD-DVD may be limited to Mpeg2. I have just become aware of the new HD-DVD spec (approved in September 2007) called "HD Rec". This allows the writing of AVCHD (e.g. Mpeg4) to standard red laser DVD media and playing back on an HD-DVD player. Theoretically, this allows up to 2 hours of HiDef content on a standard 4.7gb DVD. It is unclear to me at this point if current Toshiba HD-DVD players with the latest firmware support this yet but it does hold hope for the future. I have emailed Nero support about this but I'm not sure I'll get a useful answer from them on this topic.