I belong to a volunteer fansub group which catches raw broadcasts of Japanese anime from Tokyo and convert them with English subtitles. Mostly in MP4 format but sometimes we have do with AVI. A year ago, I had an argument with the encoder that downloaders are idiots and they wouldnt know the difference between BRRIP H264 and XVID/DVD. We have both DVD and BR versions of a “well known” anime in 720P and later released both but deliberately misplaced the format description. The downloaders mostly went for the AVI (described as BRRIP) and later posted it was one heck of a BRRIP. Unless we need thick glasses, we didnt see much difference either. We even had a test that we set up the same reso, sound and audio at the the same rate..without even telling the same person if it is BR, and a good # of them were wrong.
I have a lot of standard DVDs from Japan, mostly anime but some live action—which is why I care about subtitle readability and doing upconversions through a player; since practically none of these are available on Blu-ray.
I just got a setup suitable for watching Blu-ray a few days ago and have been considering getting Appleseed or Appleseed Ex-Machina on Blu-ray to try it out; but I've read mixed reviews about whether the masters for these shows are sufficiently HD to exploit HD formats.
720P ain’t much baby. What happened to the last 300ish? lol ;-).