Hi-

I recently switched to filming from DV to HDV and have until now been downsampling the edited footage to MPEG2/DVD.

But, as I like the original picture quality so much, I'm considering buying a new, more powerful PC with an internal LG GGW-H20 Blu-ray Writer. However, I read somewhere that some players are picky with home-burned Blu-ray disks. I would therefore welcome any advice in this respect.

TIA, Lou

I mostly tested my home burned Blu-ray discs on my PS3 and all of them, using many brands of BD-R/RE disc, work fine. Friends with Samsung and Panasonic Blu-ray player also work fine.

Thanks for responding. I'll be receiving my new PC with LG BD-burner in 2 days and in the meantime bought a Sony BDP-S300 BD player. I'll report back as soon as I've done some tests.

Lou

Hey Lou,

if you can check out the latest mag c't. It features some articles about that stuff.

Thanks for the tip, Chef, I'll check it out!

Lou

Could you tell me what software you used to burn the BD-R/RE disks.
Did it come with the GGW-20L burner ?
Does it allow editing of HD video from Camcorder and Menu creation ?

I have a PS3 and want to play my 1080i home videos via BD-R disks.

However my computer is only Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz 2 GB Ram.
Sata drive Gigabyte motherboard P4 Titan 848P.
Graphics Geoforce4 MX440 with AGP 8x 64 MB. Plenty of Hard Disk space NTFL.

I do not need to play Blue-Ray or HD DVD disks, just edit and burn Blue-Ray.

Do you think my computer will be powerful enough ?

What specs are your computer ?

My first posting Bevcon

Depends on what you mean with "edit"...

The gfx card is long outdated.

I already edit my 1080i high definition handycam videos in Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 in HD format. I can then burn an .mt2 high def video file to a DVD using a conventional DVD burner. This data file will then play through the PS3 to my HD TV still in 1080i format. However I am limited to about 20 Mins. The graphics card has not been a limitation so far.

I hope to do the same thing using the GGW-20L Blue-Ray burner but with true Blue-Ray format (Menus Etc) and without the time limit.

I tested a short scene with Cyberlink PowerProducer 5. It can capture video from your hidef camcorder and author a blu-ray disc including menus etc.

According to the System Requirement page (here) your computer should meet the minimum requirement.

Mine? not so powerful but enough for blu-ray authoring. My PC specs here, or see my sig.

Hello Zevia
Thanks for reply
Wow on your computer specs.
The CCW-H20L quotes Intel Pentium D 3.2 Ghz requirement.
My computer is Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz.
Do you know if this is better or worse than the D spec ?

Will the Cyberlink PowerProducer 5 also allow data backup to Blue-Ray disks ?

In one of the more detailed specs for the GGW-H20L it is claimed that it will write to BD-R(SL LTH) 2X. Do you know if this is correct ?
The Sony PS3 2.20 firmware upgrade will allow the plying of these disks.
I understand these disks are now available, and will be cheaper because they can be produced using existing DVD -R production equipment.