Intel Macs play back DVDSP made HD-DVDs?

The Apple website states that you need a G5 to play back the HD-DVDs made in DVDSP4 (which in my mind is like buying a brand new sports car, but not being able to drive it off the lot). I assume that's simply a question of needing the processing power to decode the video.
However, has anyone tried playing one of these back on a MacBook Pro? Those apparently have plenty of horsepower, so perhaps they'd work.
Just wondering if anyone has tried this; I'm anxious to know, as it will impact where I take my latest project. Thanks!

You should be able to I would guess since the MacIntels will run the universal versions of the Studio (all parts of it) and QT 7. If an older G5 Single Processor can play HD then a Dual Macintel with higher speeds should (in fact it does support HDV rendering from FCP according to the specs).
Would make no sense for it to otherwise not play HD if it can author it (also you can use iLife 06 on MacIntels, which has HD apps.) Macbooks also support the 30" display. And there are reports that it plays HD files very well and has the horsepower.
http://www.hdbeat.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/
Though it would be nice if Apple said it somewhere that is easy to find that it will actually play a DVD itself
Remember Apple's website can have mistakes
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/dvdstudiopro/specs.html

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unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
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For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
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I made a 23-minute film with iMovie. Material was shot with Samsung VP-DC161 digital video camera. The quality is not impressive but it is bearable.
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When I feed the DVD in my DVD player connected to my TV, I get noticeably worse results when playing back. Whenever the camera moves, it looks like I get reduced FPS, the movement in the picture from frame to frame looks like 12 FPS slide show. This gets annoying when the camera moves around, when it shoots a fixed point and people in the picture are moving I don't get the slide-show effect.
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Hi!
First of all, thanks for help so far...
Later versions fixed that. You do have v6.0.3,
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I actually do - I see that I posted into a wrong forum,m my mistake!
Samsung VP-DC161
Hey wait a minute! A quick Googling around indicated
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camcorders but can be tweaked to work with them with
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How did you import the footage to iMovie??
Copied the 8 cm DVD files into my sons hard disk (PC), burned a 12 cm DVD out of the files and then converted them into DV-format using streamclip.
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can use either bottom field first or top field
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Ok, I need to study more of this. I'm a total newbie what comes to digital video, so back to study...
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