wabid said:

I am not bickering, I am offering Harmy a recommendation and a persuasive argument as to which container allows the widest audience to view his work, without two nearly identical/fragmented copies of his work floating around. If he cares about reaching the widest audience even if it takes him a tiny bit more time (which it looks like he does by liking my suggestion to include mkvmerge) he will release an avchd.

Sorry, but I must object. What you write here makes no sense. If he wants "the widest audience to view his work" he should release it as many formats as possible.

I simply like the freedom to chose and I don't like when anybody is trying to decide for somebody else.

I don't honestly understand your problem with the free mkv format, anything you can imagine supports it these days, even my cellphone.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against AVCHD, I am simply "pro choice" :-) The fact that I prefer mkv is now irrelevant, just like the fact that you prefer AVCHD. People who watch movies from smart TVs, cellphones, stream them over local network, watch them from their HTPCs or whatever will always prefer mkv, people who are used to watch movies from optical media will probably prefer Bluray or even AVCHD. The point is - everybody is used to do it in a different way, so why are you trying to make the decision for them ?