A heavily compressed 1080p H.264 file will often suffer from "macroblocking" (blocky pixelation in dark scenes) and color banding. Conversely, a finely tuned 720p HEVC Blu-ray encode utilizes advanced features like Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) to smooth out gradients and preserve fine details. For mid-range displays, laptops, and mobile devices, a high-quality 720p HEVC file will often look noticeably cleaner and sharper than a poorly encoded 1080p file. The Advantage of Blu-ray Sources

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High Efficiency Video Coding (also known as H.265). This is the core reason why this specific file is considered highly efficient.