Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

stretch009 said:

There's only one problem with version 2.1 though. Unlike 2.0 there's only an AVCHD and not a higher bitrate version.

Still looks unbelievably awesome on my 58" plasma.

Yep, still looks great on anything I've seen it on.

As has been discussed a little bit before, the higher bitrate doesn't seem to have done a whole lot (for 2.0), but will improve some of the mild artifacting in places. The 2.0 MKV also has a boat-load more audio tracks, which adds some to the overall file size.

Overall, I believe Harmy was going for a good "in-between" bitrate - slightly higher than the current AVCHD (2.1), and a little less than 2.0, in order to accommodate for lossless audio, and the extras. Should be a great compromise :)