I haven't finalised the compression rates that we will be using yet, but I have converted my images down to the same colour space, and they are jpeg-ed so what you are seeing isn't exactly the same as the raw images, but very, very close to what will be on the DVD, and in fact the displayed images are lower quality than our hidef conversion.
On the testing I have been doing, the differences are tiny between the encoded images and the 'raw' images, and at this stage it is too much work to encode them into a DVD format and then re-extract the image to do compares. We will throw up that sort of comparison when we are in the encoding phase of the project.
The comparisons are mainly in the area of colour balance, lack of crosstalk induced video noise, and dynamic range, none of which are going to be changed by the encoding process in any real way.
The large differences shown in those compares isn't going to change much just due to an encode (and it will be nothing less than a dual layer encode)
The fine detail may change a little, but in our testing not by much at all.
The images shown so far are far from finished anyway, there is a lot more work ot be done to them, and they will only improve from here. I'd bet my left nut that the images we are showing now will be *worse* than what is on the final discs!
But yeah, it is worth pointing out for anyone who hadn't thought about that part of it.