AVCHD - Thanks Sony.....For Nothing !!!!!

LSHorwitz wrote on 7/2/2008, 3:50 AM

The new DVDA manual states very clearly that the Playstation 3 will NOT support AVCHD / BluRay interactivity, and refers you to loading each stream file manually if you want to see the video. They specifically state that menus, chapters, subtitles, etc. are NOT supported. This is exactly what I found when trying out the new DVDA version 5 tonight, much to my disappointment.

No problem if you don't mind buying a $350 burner and $15 blank disks to send home movies to the family and friends. Exactly the way Sony wants you to..........

Once again, Sony pokes a finger directly in the eye of its customers and supporters. My Sony FX-1 $3500 camcorder and Vegas suite are the very last Sony products I will EVER purchase.

Larry

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deusx wrote on 7/2/2008, 10:06 PM

People still use discs?

Wolfgang S. wrote on 7/3/2008, 1:47 AM

"It would have been thoughtful of Sony to allow AVCHD disks to be made for easy distribution of home content with DVDA since this does not in any way cut into their entertainment market. I am not naive enough to think that the Milwaukee SCS folks move independently of Tokyo; rather I am personally convinced that very deliberate decisons are made corporately which decide how these products evolve."

It is *possible* to burn HD content do DVD and DVD-DL, beside BD-R/RE, by using the DVDA5. But it will be a 002-BDMV structure always. Both, Vegas 8 and DVDA5 do not offer the 001-AVCHD-DVD structure that run in the PS3.

The 001-AVCHD-DVD structure is an older structure - does not allow animated buttoms in menus for example. So, I think there is no reason why the development team of Vegas/DVDA should support that really.
Also Encore CS3 generates only 002-BDMV strucutures, and offers not at all to burn that to DVD.

Other players - my Samsung 1400 - accepts 002-BDMV-DVDs - what shows that it is a firmware issue only. And that is the point: The fact, that the PS3 rejects 002-BDMV-DVD with menus, is a pure firmware issu. So please blame the Sony part for that, who generates the PS3 firmware. It would be easy for them to allow the PS3 the playback of 002-BDMD-DVD too, but that is not the decision of the Vegas/DVDA development team at all (as far as I know their structure).

"I believe that the development resources for a brand new tool like a BD-ready DVDA goes far beyond two man-month

There is not much new at all about DVDA as far as I can see,"

Well, a BD-authoring tool has a higher complexity than a SD-authoring tool. To be able to handle the HD content, I am sure that the DVDA had to be re-written in most parts of the source code. So it is not as simple.

"What part of that gives the impression you can burn hd to a standard dvd"

The manual?