1080 (or SD?) burning in DVDSP (or iDVD?)

First off, I've read through the very infomative HD/SD piece on the Ken Stone site....
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/hd_dvds_on_sd_dvdsyoung.html
With that in mind, I have a question. So, the HD DVD format is dead. And very few people have blu-ray players.
So, what's the best way to get your HD video (1080/30p in my case) to clients? Won't anything I do in DVDSP essetially downscae all my HD footage to SD? And if that's the case, wouldn't I get the same results just by using iDVD?
My file was exported in FCP... ProRes 422.

If you want to get HD video to a client you can either;
1) Make a Blu-Ray disc. But as you noted most people still do not have Blu-Ray players.
2) Put your video online at a place they can download it.
3) Put it on a flash drive or a portable hard drive, and give that to the client.
Standard DVDs have been, and will always be SD. If all your client has is a DVD player, then by default everything they are watching on it is SD. So maybe you do not even need HD video after all? Use Compressor to turn your HD video into a SD MPEG-2.

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