The executive producers at my company are wishing to view final show masters in HD. The only issue is my office is 2 hours from theirs. So I'd really appreciate some help in narrowing down the most simple, cost effective way for them to view copies of our HD broadcast masters in HD in their office.

I currently finish our shows in 1080i on an Avid Symphony Nitris. Our show masters are put to HDCAM tapes with either a HDWM2000 or an HDW1800.
Of course these decks use HD SDI for video/audio.

Now obviously it's not reasonable to setup an HD avid system in their office just for viewing. and the thought of sending one of our house masters for them to hold onto sends shivers up my spine. So my logical pathway seems to be authoring BD or HDDVD, send them a player and just send them a disc after each show delivery. They do have HD displays down there, but they're consumer displays with HDMI

I know you can author HD DVD files to DL DVD's. and I only need to be able to fit a 22 or 44 minute show on each disc.
I would greatly appreciate any ideas or help whatsoever.

We've had success using DVD studio pro to author 1080i content at roughly ~17mbit to DVD+Rs for playback on an A2. The only issue is the need to pad the files that are authored to DVD-9s with ~5 minutes of black (at the same bitrate as the content) because the transfer rate at the beginning of the disc isn't great enough to prevent skipping. This doesn't seem to be a problem with DVD-5s, so we suspect it's a media issue. We've only tried TDK and memorex media though, so its possible there's a brand that doesn't require the padding.

Thanks for some insight guys.

I should've mentioned we are on PC's as well.
Has anyone used or known someone whom has used Pinnacle?

I know you can author HD DVD files to DL DVD's. and I only need to be able to fit a 22 or 44 minute show on each disc.
I would greatly appreciate any ideas or help whatsoever.

I just put a 21 video on to a 4.7 GB DVD-R, and it also was 1080i. The best part was that my wife pointed out a typo in the menu, so I had to throw away a 30 cent disc, not a $20 one.

My bet is that you could fit the 44 minute show on to a DL disc. How may do you want to produce? If it is a large amount, the HD DVD/DVD DL is the way to go.