Ok i have a SONY HD handycam, will be upgrading to elements 3 shortly.

I want to edit a short movie shot on HD and watch it back on my SONY V series HDTV, i think the best method so as not to loose picture quality is: edit movie - export back to HD tape and play back on the HDTV.

or are their any benifits outputting the footage to dual layer DVD and playing back via my upscaling DVD player?

your thoughts please?

If your on about high def, then yes its probs the best way. Otherwise your DVD will just be standered deffinition any way.