Creating AVCHD Discs?

Am I correct in thinking that an AVCHD disc is basically Blu-ray encoded video burned to a standard DVD-5?
I have encoded a 5 minute test video and now have an audio and video file.
What do I do with them?
Do I use DVDSP and if so how do I configure the project settings as the only choice apart from SD DVD appears to be HD DVD (which I have been told is not suitable)?
Incidentally I have tried both project settings and when I try to import the 2 files I am told they are in an incompatible format.

I tested the 5 minute disc on my son's PS3 and it didn't work. Nothing appeared on the screen to show that the DVD had been recognised.
However, there could be a couple of reasons for that.
1. DVD+RWs are not the best media for this task . . . . . let's face it, many ordinary DVD players won't recognise them.
2. Apparently, according to David's second link, PS3s are notoriously unreliable at playing AVCHD discs and my son's is straight out of the box and never been updated.
So my next step will be to create an AVCHD disc on a terribly expensive (15 pence!) DVD-R and see what happens.
What a waste of a DVD!

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