Dvd studio for final cut pro x?

Hi to all!
I have Final Cut Pro X (latest version),  I'm aware is that there is lack of customised DVD authoring within FCPX,  as I'm being told to export to iDVD, but iDVD has limited capacity for me to edit the menu as not brilliant as Adobe Encore (As I dont have Adobe Premiere Pro as I'm FCPX fan!).
Will the engineers at Apple have a plan to develop DVD authoring client within FCPX family - like Compressor 4, Motion 5 - in the pipeline?  If they do, then it would be fanstatic,  as Apple doesn't seemed to be customer services friendly as they dont reply to my emails?
Any response you guys please?
thanks  Ryan

My guess is that if HD DVD had won the High Def disc war Apple would not be in such a rush to dismiss optical media.
Apple placed all their bets on HD DVD and Blu-ray finally emerged as the winner. Consequently, It appears that Apple has decided that optical media should not exist.
It seems a little radical and premature to me.
In my opinion Optical media is still a valid and viable way to move and store large amounts of data. It's also a perfectly viable format for entertainment media.
I still back up redundantly to DVD or blu-ray. It gives me peace of mind to know that I have my data stored on a medium that is not prone to the same forms of failure as spinning magnetic discs.
Downloading huge operating systems and applications that monopolize ones bandwidth and time for hours if not days seems like an unnecessary burden to place on the user base.
Maybe if thumb drives become cheap enough Apple and other companies will offer the option to purchase software on tiny removable media for a small additional fee.
Otherwise we all better hope that internet bandwidth and speed go WAY up at an affordable rate. (and everybody has access to it)
Will optical discs eventually be irrelevant some day? OF COURSE!
But not yet. And certainly not as a knee jerk reaction to loosing a format war.
</rant>

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