Has anyone invested in or have any working experience with HD-DVD or Blu-Ray burners?

Are they available for Macs? Price? Brands?

I would like to burn high-def home movies to either format, but not sure whether to go HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, which would then make the decision of buying an X-Box 360 or PS3 a lot easier!

You could get a Pioneer blueray burner which will work with toast and maybe some other programs

Id say blueray is the safer bet at the moment

But if your looking at getting an xbox or ps3 why not just stream the files over your network

saves you buying expensive blueray burner + discs

or get one of the cheap hdd or network HD players

Is it even possible to burn to HD-DVD or Blu-ray video discs yet? I'm pretty sure iDVD and DVD Studio Pro can't at the moment. They will only recognise standard DVDs.

Bluray definitely seems the be the one that is coming out on top, due to all the movie companies signing contracts to use it etc. So are you burning these for clients with videos u make or?

If you don't really need the physical disc I agree with mac man luke.

At the moment it is something I am investigating, both personally and for clients; it's definitely going to be something clients will be asking for; it's definitely the "buzz" when you go into any electronics store - "high-def" this and "blu-ray" that ...

Definitely go bluray.. If I keep doing wedding videography I definitely have to go down that path soon too. I have no idea how bluray integrates with a mac at this time though. I know it all works with vista.

Until Apple releases their new HD "DVD Studio Pro" (or whatever it might be called) type application, we won't be able to burn HD content for Blu-Ray anyway.

Currently DVD Studio Pro only supports HD-DVD. We were recently discussing this in another forum.

Avc-hd

grorr76 confirmed he has burnt 1080p video to standard DVDs for playback on a HD-DVD player. Your are just limited to a short amount of time, due to the lower capacity disc.

would recommend blu-ray as well. The latest figures show blu-ray outselling HD DVD by miles:
http://gizmodo.com/350001/hd-dvd-also-falling-in-europe
http://gizmodo.com/347773/blu+ray-do...o-93-after-ces
http://gizmodo.com/347299/first-para...tted-on-amazon
http://gizmodo.com/347047/hd-dvd-los...senal-in-japan
http://gizmodo.com/344885/the-downfa...ble-on-blu+ray
http://gizmodo.com/344680/the-real-r...r-went-blu+ray
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02...hd_dvd_europe/

also with only universal and paramount left to support HD DVD and apparently a clause in their contract with HDVDV that they can shift support, you'd be mad to go HDDVD.

I have a Pioneer BDR-202 Blu-ray writer. Leopard recognises and will burn to it natively.

There aren't any HD DVD burners available at the moment.

Cool .Ill put that on my list with which too blow my credit card on is the burner SATA or PATA

It's SATA. I've installed it in my Mac Pro, it was a bit difficult to connect the SATA cable to the connection on the board, then feed the cable up in to the optical drive bay.

Leopard burns data natively, Toast does video... but only DVD quality MPEG-2. It plays back with no issue on my Sony BDP-S300.

Arh poohwon't fit in my imac,my credit card breaths a sigh of relief