High vs low bitrate discussion v. 20-10

[patrick99]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

I am a reviewer on another site. Lots of little flaws in the compression start appearing around 20 Mbps. The only movies that compress well at low-bitrates are the CGI movies. Anything shot on film needs 25 Mbps at least, and preferably 30 Mbps. The only evidence to the contrary was the early HD DVD encodes that were hand-tweaked repeatedly and had segment re-encodes for any problems. But the studios do not have the manpower or money to do that on movies now. The only reason HD DVD got away with it for a time was that Microsoft was throwing money down the drain hoping to derail Blu-ray and its superior bandwidth.

Indeed.

To repeat, I find it extremely baffling as to what is the motivation behind these posts, long after the end of the format war, deriding as lazy those studios that use ample bitrates and praising those who give us instead the bare minimum. Baffling.