In my case, it is quite easy to tell on a 65" plasma screen. If people like to compress a compressed file even further and don't see much of a difference then I am happy for them. While it still adds up, the exercise was to archive the movie as near identical to the discs. As for BD being 30 gigs, sorry but mine range from 15 gigs to about 24 on the average as I only do the main movie video, one audio stream (HD usually) and subs as needed. I am happy to take the risk of not having everything off site for disaster recovery procedures. I also have the original discs neatly stored. To both you and cynics - yes, I use a NAS and have more than 7 tb of movies. and the long standing ANYDVD (license fee required). If you run bootcamp or a virtual Windows, you will have lots more quality tools at your disposal - includng ClownBD, TXmuxer, various MKV tools, subtitle tools etc.
Last - there are only a few tools on the OSX side and lots of nice (free as well) tools on the Windows side. In this, I prefer having M2TS native style files over MKV for this purpose while MKV works well for all else and selected subtitles (Blue Ray). The one caveat to MKV files is that if they include forced subtitles, they may not always be picked up by some players. Lets understand that both MT2S (Blue Ray) and VOB (DVD) video are already in a form of compression and thus, you are compressing an already compressed file when using Handbrake.
As for those that go directly to Handbrake for all of their files, I can only be envious that they don't see the difference as I surely do on my TV and computer screen between the full file and the Handbrake compressed file.
If you have faith in PLEX doing the on the fly conversions then perhaps you are saving a step. Thus, a full archive library with top quality files and a 2nd for small devices. With this scenario, I would prefer to create a 2nd file that matches the needs of these smaller devices. The catch then becomes that this highest quality may not be a good match for smaller devices than a computer or TV.
In my case, I prefer the highest quality product/file I can achieve when archiving my discs. There are lots of variations on a theme as well as desired output.
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