I've been spoiled by Fox's high bitrate titles...

[degas]

Originally Posted by patrick99

My point was that on the best of their recent releases, using bitrates that are often in the mid 30's, Fox has produced PQ results that seem to show that there is a clear benefit from using this somewhat higher bitrate level..

I understand you.
However, I don't think high bitrate is the whole answer to the PQ of those releases. Cameras used, shooting style, post processing, mastering, compression/encoding etc will all play their part.
And all those things are probably more important than high bitrates (to a certain degree of course, but when comparing mid 20's to mid 30's).

But that said, I certainly don't advocate low bitrates - I like best possible bitrate (and audio) too. I just don't believe that's the main "maker" of great PQ (again comparing good bitrates with better bitrates).