Will Avchd video play on a non avchd dvd player?

I was thinking of buying an avchd camera (canon hfs one records to sdhc flash memory cards), but I am hesitant because of all of the questions surrounding it. If I record avchd, edit in Final Cut Express, and then put in iDVD and then burn on a regular dvd, can the video play in any dvd player? Is there any way to do this?

There may be some issues during the editing process, but if you can get the video burned to a standard video DVD (ie, not a data DVD), it doesn't matter what the original file format was. Regular DVDs must all meet the DVD standard, which means your video has to be converted to mpeg-2 format during the encoding/burning process.
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