[rockdoe]

H.265 only compresses twice as much as H.264 in marketing materials, or when not comparing to x264. It is trivial to change the defaults to give half the bitrate but you will not get the same quality.

[feld]

I just saw bluray rips of the same show on Usenet. x264 = 2.5GB, x265 = 600MB.

I'm not certain the scene releasers with reputations to maintain are going to release terrible quality rips.

[rockdoe]

The same people who insisted on 192 kbps CBR non-joint stereo for years? Hahaha...