Ok, so you may say, why not just see for yourself. I wanted to hear your thoughts on this one. Which is better, a 7gb, 720p conversion of a blu ray, or a 7gb 1080p conversion of a blu ray? Is there a simple this way or that way answer??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY2dlfMLobU Maybe this will help you decide. You need to watch it in 1080p though. Edit: Sorry missed read your post entirely. There is probably very little in the difference between the two in terms of quality. I'd go with 1080p coz its got moooarr numbers!
For me they are odd figures, if I want 720 then I tend to go for 4-6gb and if I want 1080p I try to get 10gb+ I'm not sure which would look better, I'd probably lean towards getting the 720p on principle more than anything (I'd rather have something with a very high bitrate than a very low) Depends how you're viewing it as well, if you're viewing it on a 1080p 23" screen then the 1080p copy may look fine, but if you're viewing it on a 55" TV then maybe the cracks would start to show? (or could be the other way round, I've never done any testing as to which looks worse on a physically larger screen)
Whats wrong with 1080p 1.5GB+ MP4 Quality? Looks as good as the original Bluray IMO. This guy does a good job of it -- no links to torrents of illegal videos, please. Nexxo
I tend to feel this is true. I watch on a 42" tv. I am under the impression as far as motion is concerned, a 20-30gb blu ray will look it's best at 7+gb for 1080p and 4+gb for 720p. I myself usually trust the ones that say PublicHD.
YIFY rips are only stereo, so a large amount of space is saved by cutting out 2/3 of the audio compared to 5.1 surround sound. On a small screen without surround sound they might seem fine but compared to a good quality rip you can see and hear the differences easily on a decent home theater setup.
Pretty sure you're not allowed to link that. He isn't. Nexxo Also I easily saw the difference between a 2gb 720p rip and 4gb 720p rip, dark areas/shadows lose so much detail.
Personal preference I guess 7gb would probably look decent enough at 1080p and look great at 720p. It's how much data makes the picture so the higher the res the more data you need for it to keep quality. 1080p can look awful if it's suffering from a low bit rate, I have one 1080p rip but that's 11GB !
I think for 1080p you are looking at a minimum of around 7gb. All my 720p vids are between 3 and 5gb.
I feel anything under 4000kbps is far to low when using h.264 in mp4 container, unless you are encoding strictly for a mobile device to save space. Though also the software and codecs used play a huge part on the quality as well so it is not always a hard number of what is best. I also always use stereo only, as I don't have surround and don't care about it. So I can save a good deal of file size using aac stereo over 7.1 dts which serves no purpose for me really.