> That's more or less the level of what I'm trying to do too. I make POV-Ray 
> render some insane stuff, build AVIs out of it, and then put it onto a 
> real DVD so it can be played anywhere. (Plus playing uncompressed video 
> seems to stress my HD.)

For playback on PCs (and on the PS3 connected to my TV) I usually convert to 
h264 which is really good for high resolution.  I found a program called 
xvid4psp which is free and has a nice GUI to do all the conversion, without 
needing some huge command line only to find that your player doesn't support 
"adaptive b-frames" or some pyramid thingy.

> The thing I've got seems to crash a lot. It allows you to do some limited 
> video editing, but stubbornly refuses to allow you to do things like 
> insert pauses or writing and so on.

Oh, Windows Movie Maker is good for stuff like that, it's what I usually use 
for simple editing with text, still images, pauses etc.  I've got a feeling 
that it's only the version that comes with Vista that lets you do HD quality 
though, but I guess that's not a problem for you.

> You do realise that I was *in* Curries looking at new TVs only a few days 
> ago, right?

That's funny, on their website they have plenty of HDTVs under 400 pounds.

> Really? That's a rather sudden price drop, don't you think? I mean, the 
> format is still brand-spanking-new.

Hmm I don't think so, once the PS3 came out, basically nobody could sell a 
blu-ray player for above 400 pounds.  Since then the prices have gradually 
come down from 350 or so to the 200 you see today.

> Are there even any BluRay titles to play yet?

Amazon only have 1507 titles listed.

> Now that's just puzzling. I tried to use Windows Movie Maker once, and it 
> wouldn't do *anything* I wanted it to do. Sure, I could take a bunch of 
> videos and join them together to make one video. But that seemed to be the 
> sum total of its abilities.

You didn't notice the fades and text and all the effects you could add then?

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