hey guys, i have a new hdr sr11. i will be mostly recording in 1080 hd. have a blue ray player ect.

what is the easiest way to burn dvd's? i know my computer is to slow to edit/possibly burn them. (not a duo core) the sony dvdirect looks pretty good. is it?

thanks.

I have not tried the direct burn to disk as I like to edit the footage and add music, DVD menu, etc. before burning to disk.
You are right that it takes a long time to encode to AVCHD, but it shouldn't take any longer to burn to the DVD. Go have lunch or take a nap or whatever. The newer Nvidia cards with the G92 graphics engine can decode H.264 (GEforce 8800GT and up), which speeds things up considerably.
I am a long time Adobe Premiere Pro user but Adobe doesn't support MPEG4. I am using Corel ULead Video Studio 11.5 Plus to edit my HDR-SR11 footage. You can find it at a very reasonable price on Amazon.com. It actually runs in an MPEG2 envelope but encodes to MPEG4.
Ulead Video Studio will burn the AVCHD recording to a regular DVD - you don't need a BluRay burner in your PC. The DVD will play very nicely on your BluRay player. The mandated format for BluRay players is H.264 AVC High Profile, which is the same codec that your HDR-SR11 uses.
You can also transfer your edited movie back to the camcorder hard drive. This will allow you to play the edited movie on a friend's Hi Def TV set even if he does not have a BluRay player. You can connect either with component cables or HDMI, whichever is available.
Pretty cool.