TK-423 said:

And how come the MKV of Star Wars 2.0 is nearly twice as large as the AVCHDs of all the 1.0 releases?

This topic has alrady addressed that. Here is a brief recap:

With either the right playback gear OR the the right eyes/vision compression in the data packets is highly noticable via artifacts, color depth and so on...

Harmy is spending what may amount to thousands of hours, to have it ruined in the absolute final phase in order to save a few GB would be a huge crime. It's 2013 not 1999, rather hard to believe there are those concerned with an extra 10-15GB. Regardless of the compression method there is ALWAYS loss.

Luckily for mankind Harmy agrees and his efforts will not be comprimised by a small faction thats seems to be only concerned with getting 2.1 or 2.5 [I like 2.5 better] small enough to fit on a phone or some other device with a teeny tiny display. Don't get why anyone woudld want to see it that way myself, as this is meant to be seen in full glory on a large screen. Kudos to harmy for not yielding to the faction who seems to desire a result worse than what Lucus would allow us.

Those who for whatever reason want smaller file size there are plenty of free tools that will allow you to do (ruin) that ON YOUR OWN and google/yahoo/duckduckgo/etc can be your friend unless you are too lazy of course....