HDTV Disc
Digital disc media is currently the most preferred choice of video and movie archival for collection purposes.
Although the method of content delivery is changing over to online networks through the internet, consumers who advance their video and movie collections still rely primarily on archival through Blu-ray and compressed DVD disc. This is because while HDTV video streaming and content delivery over the internet is not just feasible but convenient, our DVR (Digital Video Recorders) are not meant as an archival device and anyone who wants even a few of their favorites readily available for viewing will fill-up the hard drive in their DVR very quickly.
The most common disc format that is capable of producing high-definition television video is Sony's Blu-ray format. This format is widely available, and the Blu-ray players sold to the public (such is in the Sony Playstation) are generally capable of playing older technology format discs such as DVD (Digital Video Disc) and CD-ROM discs.
Though the elder format discs are not usually thought of when producing high-definition discs, they still are capable of this feat using modern compression codecs.
In fact, both broadcast television and internet streamed video is delivering an extremely compressed video signal already. That's why it takes a second to skip up and down channels with your remote. First your reciever has to find the signal, buffer it and then it will decompress it as it delivers the picture to your screen for your viewing pleasure.
The reason that the Blu-ray Disc system has become standardized as the best and most well used disc based delivery system for movie and video content is that it can handle great amounts of data for complete movies, bonus content, games, music tracks and even whole seasons of high definition television series.
However, before there was ever a Blu-ray, HD-DVD or any other format of video disc that was capable of producing a quality HDTV capable format signal, we early adopters were buying HDTV capable camcorders, editing the video in professional non-linear video editors (such as Premier Pro or Final Cut Pro) and saving our work to DVD. We called the result an HDTVDiscTM.
While we do not want to over-shadow the convenience and nearly limitless possibilities that the Blu-ray Disc platform offers, the BD-R format is ridiculously over-priced. Because of the expense associated with the Sony Blu-ray Disc-Recordable (BD-R) platform, in order to allow our amatuer videographers an alternative and affordable means of camera video archival for storing short stories in High Definition, we are re-introducing the HDTVDiscTM format, which was born out of the necessity of having any kind of means for high-definition video footage archival.
The reason that a DVD based method of high-definition delivery work are simple, codecs have now advanced so far that we can provide a quality signal on a small DVD, and because most videographers shooting home movies, amatuer video, instructional videos and things of the same nature do not require even a full hour of footage. Most of todays short subjects are well under half an hour. Which makes the DVD format the perfect format for archiving, or even delivering, a highly compressed video signal.
Since there are no uncompressed signals in the real world of consumer video anymore, it makes sense to push that envelope. And by doing so using advanced codecs such as DivX, we can get nearly an hour of uncomprised quality high-definition video to enjoy on a DVD.
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