The Golden Idol said:
adywan said:The AVCHD will be a DVD-9 so the bitrate will be around equivalent to that of the original HD source file
Forgive me for not being very tech-savvy, but will the AVCHD DVD-9 be playable on regular DVD players?
No. The whole idea of AVCHD is that it's effectively a Blu-Ray signal squashed down to fit on a standard DVD-9. It's about space compression, not backwards compatibility.