burn 1080p video to DVD

[rattler21]

I love to view my Bionic videos in 1080p on my TV. I have a lot of personal family videos that I would like to share with my extended family. We are older and not many have compatible technology to share with. I want to put those videos on DVD, in DVD format to share them with a lot of family. How can I easily put those videos on a DVD that will play in any DVD player? Much thanks in advance.

 

[Mooncatt]

Upload the videos to your computer and then you can use a DVD making program to convert and burn. I've never tried myself with 1080p videos, but I do know you won't be able to store much on a DVD in such high resolution. You may want to consider lowering the resolution to 720 or even 480 (if not worried about being HD) to fit a lot more on a single disk.

 

[rattler21]

I understand that I need to reduce the resolution from 1080p to that compatible with a DVD. I am interested in the program that will do that. Thanks for the idea.

 

[SonicJoe]

The DVD format only supports 480i (maybe 480p). You can make a DVD, but it won't be 1080p, unless you burn it as a data DVD and just drop the file on it. To get 1080p on a playable disc you'll need to either burn a blu-ray or hd-dvd disk.

But to answer your original question, just about any DVD burning program should be able yo do what you want. If you aren't too technical then Roxio or Nero or even Windows Movie Maker (which comes with Vista and can be added to 7 or XP via Windows Live Essentials) can handle the task. If you don't have either of those, try Googling because there are several free programs that'll do what you want (but may take some know-how to use).

 

[tech_head]

Handbrake to convert the video.
On a Mac you can use Toast to burn *AND* convert.

Don't know about PC's.