crampedmisfit1990 said:
I gotta ask... why take the time to fix a film's color timing only to create a encode less than full 1080p HD??? Or are the files correctly color timed in full HD and then down converted for easy download?
By full 1080p HD I assume you mean 1920x1080 blu-ray compatible resolution? My regrades have exactly the same resolution except with the top and bottom black bar cropped, as is standard with 1080p mkv releases. They are cropped at the same time as they are regraded so there is no down conversion, no loss of image quailty.
From my experience a cropped mkv encode always has noticably better image quality than a 1920x1080 encode of the same size. There is also the matter that an mkv file has better compression than a m2ts file, a 20gb mkv file converts without image quality loss into a 22gb m2ts blu-ray file to fit on a bd-25. If you write the cropped mkv release to a bd-25, that 2gb lost can instead go towards the bitrate of the mkv release, making it a 22gb mkv encode that you can write onto a bd-25, with once again noticably better image quality.
So the difference in image quality between a cropped mkv regraded encode that fits on a bd-25 and a 1920x1080 regraded encode that fits on a bd-25 is pretty big for those two reasons, at least from my experience. For a guy like me that streams films from his laptop onto his TV, its a nobrainer to create cropped mkv regraded releases where the image quality is much better.