greedo said:

please do a 1080p mkv version. I hope other peeps want this as well.

I have said that you can get the AVCHD version and rip out the m2ts file and convert it to a .ts file that will play on your PC and will be exactly the same as a .mkv version. It takes a few minutes with free software and the quality is exactly the same because you are not re-encoding the file.

greedo said:

I had so many good brands dvd-rs fail on me. plus they take up so much space and are slow and i always lost my marker pen to label them!

Well they couldn't have been good brands /dye. Just because a product has a well known name doesn't mean that the product is any good. I always used to use Ritek dye based media because they were always regarded as the best but hell of a lot of discs that have never been played are now unreadable because the dye has degraded. The Taiyo yuden ones are more expensive but i have ones that i recorded 6 years ago that scans show have not degraded at all. I haven't found another brand that haven't in some way degraded. Even Verbatim aren't always the best. It all depends on the dye they use.