Imovie to dvd or bluray

using imovie - I want to burn to dvd or bluray. Toast is not working so please give another suggestion.
itunes will not burn to dvd where a dvd player will recognize so please don't suggest that.
Any other ideas?

You can create your HD movie in iMovie 11.
However, you will also need Disk Authoring software that can burn  a BluRay disk.
I recommend an App called Toast Titanium. You will also need the BluRay plugin.
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html
You can also burn a BluRay playable disk from Apple's Compressor app, but it will be a very simple disk with no menu structure.
With both Toast and Compressor, you can burn short BluRay movies to a regular DVD using a regular DVD burner. These will be playable in a BluRay player.  With a BluRay burner, you can do longer movies, or fit more movies (or data) on a single disk.
As an aside, these are not real BluRay disks. A BluRay disk like you buy in a store is heavily licensed, and you need press runs of 1000 or more. They are totally impractical for home use. What programs like Toast do is to burn the BluRay media using AVCHD format. It turns out that most BluRay players can read AVCHD data streams, and you don't have to deal with the BluRay licensing.
If you are doing this for home use, I would recommend that you consider the Apple TV. It is a lot more convenient than BluRay.

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