I don't know if this is the right place to post this, so I apologize in advance if it's not.

I'm looking to start burning not only some HD movies I've downloaded such as documentaries and what not, but also anything else that happens to fall under the catagory of HD video. I have several videos based in different formats, some of which are .ts that were from/for my HD-DVD player, some that I commonly share between my households are in matroska using multiple different formats of video and audio in them, others are .wmv and the such.

The problem I'm running into is that I cannot seem to get them converted to a format that will play in my central theater system, I don't want to drag my PC across town and leave it there to hook it up to this system nor build another one, and I really don't want to end up with these beautiful HD movies to end up in SD morphed versions.

Does anyone know of a good format converter that maintains the quality of the video, can convert to a format that HD-DVD players/blu-ray players can play (either or, I've got both so it doesn't matter) and a burning software that does this without damaging the quality of the video?

I dont know what player you have, but some BD players seems to play AVCHD wich has alot of software support.

Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 has a converter in it. I was able to get some of my (not HD) tivo films onto the PC and out as a SD DVD.

Might be a place to look.

One assumes that you have a BD burner then?

Seggers

I have a BD burner on order, but the warehouse / snail mail is taking its sweet time :/ maybe next time I'll make sure it's in stock before ordering one.

In the mean time I'm burning portions to DVD since a lot of the movies are documentaries and scenery, it's not hard to find a place to segment the movie to put them onto multiple DVDs.

I'm looking into the AVCHD players to see if the one i ordered uses it.

Would like to add that Nero has support for AVCHD.

Does anyone know of a good format converter that maintains the quality of the video, can convert to a format that HD-DVD players/blu-ray players can play (either or, I've got both so it doesn't matter) and a burning software that does this without damaging the quality of the video?Look at extenders, TViX, PopcornHour...
They will play probably just about everything you have.

Converting on the fly won't do high quality HD footage justice, re
-encoding will take some time...

Diogen.