PRE9 - burn old non HD video (VHS/8mm) to blu ray to take avantage of blu ray capacity?

I've got a lot of old VHS and 8mm video I'm burning to DVDs using pre9. I'm creating tons of DVDs in the process. Since blu rays have much more capacity than a DVD, is it possible to use pre9 to burn the old videos to blu ray as non HD and fit many hours on each blu ray?

You could certainly burn the VIDEO_TS folders from each DVD as a data folder. Software Players should be fine with that, but I'm not sure about hardware players. You would probably find that some BR players will allow you to select from various folders, other players won't.
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