Creating an interactive cd or dvd...

I've haven't found too much info about creating an interactive cd or dvd. I see that the new version of DVDSP touts features for doing such, but how good of a solution is it? If I were to make an inteactive DVD, say a quiz, would it play slowly on a consumer dvd player? Do these games/quizzes only work well on a computer? I've seen recommendations for Adobe products ; ie. Director. I would like to develop an interactive quiz. The idea is to have it play both on dvd players, as well as on computers. Is this feasible, or do I need two different solutions? Any suggestions of what software and solutions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
G5 DC 2.0   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

You have less flexibility using DVDSP, but whatever you do that works will work for a TV or for a computer, because the computer would just play it as a DVD-Video. There are some cases where the computer experience won't be as good, so I would expect everyone to prefer to use it on a TV.
Director is used for web based applications and games, and for downloadable applications and games, and for CD-ROM and DVD-ROM. It also happens to be able to play DVD-Video content inside an interactive environment, with none of the limitations that DVD-Video normally has. But if you're going to be that interactive you probably should use QuickTime video or Flash video inside the Director application, and not require the user to have DVD-Video play back abiliy at all.
If you made such a highly interactive disc you probably wouldn't be able to reproduce all the features in a DVD-Video only version.
If you're curious about Director, maybe you could sign up for this Adobe presentation that is happening next Wednesday:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=872636&loc=en_us

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