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[phloyd]

Originally Posted by GoldenRedux

The question is, how or why would you not expect better PQ at higher bitrates, however likely or unlikely it may be to happen?

If a different encode was done with the same codec at different bitrates, I would expect that you might notice a difference.

But back here in the real world, Warner is going to use the same encode for both formats... there is no reward for them to spend the extra $$$ to do a new encode.

I don't know about you, but I am sure that there has to be at the very least one studio out there, big or small, that would like to take advantage of the larger capacity and higher bitrates of BD. Isn't that what DVD releases from the likes of Criterion and Superbit releases have been about all these years, maximising the technology? Why would it not occur for Blu-ray?

Maybe one day.

I stand by what I said - in the real world, we should not expect Bluray to look better than HD DVD.

Our only hope for it to do so is Disney and Fox with high bitrate H.264 encodes. The trailers for Pirates and Pearl Harbor do look very good.

It is ok for them to exceed my expectations