HD DVD Burners and DVD Players

Someone recently told me that to have HD Quality video using an HD digital camera such as the HDR-FX1, i need an HD DVD burner, and an HD DVD player. Is this true? Or can I just use my LaCie DVD burner and my Sony DVD player and still get HD quality?

It is unknown at this time what will play in HD DVD players when they arrive. Sony, Apple, HP and other are supporting BluRay(tm) and H.264 as their selected format, Intel, Microsoft, Toshiba and others another encoding technology, some sort of Window Media stuff.
Yes, HD does take 4 times as many bits, and more than that for up to 24 channels of audio; but compression technology continues to improve. WRT H.264, I don't know what it's maximum bit rate is and I've not seen definitive articles on compression artifacts and other concerns on HD material. When HD DVD arrives, many of us will want to see substantial improvements over the best DVD has to offer; I'd really like 1080p rather than interlaced, for example. Bluray certainly has the technical specs to provide the data storage for that. But we'll have to wait and see who wins the technology battles.
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PS: there was a news article today which said the Chinese are even going to invent their OWN HD DVD standards for a third competing method of creating DVDs. Something about wanting to avoid licensing fees in the Chinese market.

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