[Sean Malle]

You absolutely can put HD video onto a standard dvd and watch it in HD. You must have a blue ray player to make it work. You take the video streams from your HD camcorder and burn them onto a regular DVDr in a blue ray folder format. There is a Windows program called TSMuxer that does that very thing. I currently import the video using iMovie for mac and then use txMuxer in Windows to make the Blue Ray disk. I think you can also just copy over the BDMV folder from the camcorder and burn that onto a blank DVDr and have it work that way also. Again, you must have a Blue Ray player in order to play it back though. I am not sure if they all work or not, but I use a PS3 for my Blue Ray.