HD DVD says its a data disc

Hello, I have exported my HD footage though compressor under the H.264 60 min setting. I then drop it into DVDSP and create my menus, menu1 is first play. I assign the videos track and click burn. It burns with no errors and will then play on my Mac with perfect quality. The problem is it will not play in any other player, windows or a DVD player. I have tried DVD +/- R and neither work. If I look on the actual DVD there is only one DVD on there, it says HDDVD_TS, I see no VOB file. I'm a lost now. If someone might point me in a better direction I would appreciate it. Thanks.

All DVDs are "data DVDs" ... but those formatted properly are also DVD-Video. That means they will be recognized and playback in just about any DVD player.
However, an HD DVD will only play on a Mac and a few discontinued Toshiba HD DVD players.
If you want to make a DVD-Video that will be compatible with most DVD players, you'll need to create an SD DVD. Export your footage to Compressor and use one of the DVD presets, then import the resulting files into DVD-SP for authoring. Since DVD-Video is a standard definition format, the end result will be a standard definition DVD.
-DH

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