[geoff]

Originally Posted by ColinM

Nero Vision Express will do .avi to DVD compliant authoring on the fly. It's pretty damn fast too. I could do 88 minutes of .avi to DVD in about 120 minutes.

Sadly, the program started making coasters. I uninstalled Express, then uninstalled Nero and reinstalled them one at a time and still made coasters.

So, I'm getting a DVD player that plays .avi files as data. Think of it as a cd player for your car that also plays .mp3.

.mp3 - 700 mb of songs is to cd audio - 80 minutes of songs

as

.avi - 4.3 gb of shows is to dvd - 120 minutes of shows

It's the Phillips DVP-642, if you're curious.

I have that dvd player and i freaking love it!