I’m working on something at the moment for this site, and stumbled across something interesting: the video bitrates for the original, terrible, release of Full Metal Jacket on Blu-ray, and the considerably improved, remastered Deluxe edition.
The original one had an average video bitrate of 23.70Mbps in MPEG2 format, while the improved one got by with 17.07Mbps in VC1 format. Somehow, I don’t think either the compression format nor the average bitrate had much to do with final picture quality: it all came down to the quality of the original prints used.