High definition output without Blu-ray

I work with CS3 Production Suite (Ae, Pr, En etc), have Blu-ray display equipment (deck and TV), but do not (yet) have a Blu-ray burner.  I've created a 1080p30 project in After Effects and would like to view it in best possible resolution via a normal DVD.  The AVCHD entry in Wikipedia implies this is the way to go for this and my DVD deck supports AVCHD, but neither CS3 documentation or other entries in these Adobe forums are helpful on this.  What is the best work flow for getting my project on the TV screen via a DVD with best kluge approximation to 1080p30 BD?

Imagex: A DVD-Video disc is a very specific standard that defines what a DVD disc should be in order to be compatible with DVD players.
AVCHD is not part of the specification in any way. In fact, the DVD spec was brought together in the mid-90s, and being also a hardware standard, it's not going to change (unless, of course, it's no longer DVD but something else, like Blu-Ray).
A DVD-video disc is strictly SD (Standard Defintion) video, encoded with MPEG-2 compression at certain bit tates (AVHCD uses the H.264 codec with HD frame sizes).
So far, the bad news.
The good news: A properly made SD MPEG-2 can look very, very good on a large TV.
Depending on your experise with DVD authoring, you could encode the MPEG-2 file yourself (I would not recommend it... because we're discussing this in the first place!) or you could export a Quicktime or AVI file with the best posssible compression (or better yet, lossless) and let the DVD authoring app handle it.
I would export a Quicktime or AVI lossless file and give that to Adobe Encore CS4. Make sure you set Encore to SD-DVD NTSC and just use your Quicktime or AVI file in a timeline in Encore. It will take care of encoding it to MPEG-2 and all. Just make sure it handles/encodes your file as 16:9, keeping the original aspect. Fortunately, DVD-Video totally supports widescreen/anamporhic video, even if it's SD.
Let me know if you need more help.

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