AVCHD on DVD+R to play on X-box 360?

[skyml]

Am actually in Germany now and don't have the details of the project/disc we made which is back in NY where I'm returning this weekend. But, as I remember it, we took the raw footage recorded on a sony CX7 and some mixed SD DV from a sony TRV-900 and then added them to a single track with a pic and a title. We did a crossfade to transition between the clips. We created our disc using the Share > Create Disc > AVCHD feature in VS (11.5+) and kept the defaults.

This was a "see if it works" run and plan a more detailed test next week when I return.

Two of us thought the quality looked the same as the source footage did on the camera's (I know the quality of the SD from the TRV-900 and we've run HD direct from the CX7 via HDMI to an HD monitor in 1080i).

As of yet, we haven't done a side-by-side comparison of the raw footage direct from the cameras and the edited footage from the disc... don't have the resources yet and are borrowing test equipment by running down to Bestbuy and sampling their's .

[supercar]

The built in DVD player on the XBOX-360 was a standard DVD player. Microsoft was in the HD-DVD camp, so you could buy an HD-DVD add-on player. I was able to successfully write HD-DVD to DVD-R (not DVD+R; there seems to be a compatibility issue with the player) and play them back on the HD-DVD addon player. I don't believe the HD-DVD addon player would playback AVCHD disks though. I believe Microsoft has talked about producing a blu-ray addon player now that blu-ray won the format war.

I have successfully written a number of AVCHD disks to DVD-R and played them back on a Samsung BP-1400 blu-ray player. This seems to work well using the default settings for bit rates, etc. The only disk I had problems with was one that I tried to set the bit rate to what I thought was a reasonable fixed-rate.

-Dave