Right, there's absolutely no encoding on a remux. If you see a torrent tagged 1080p that's less than 15
GB then you can assume it's an encode from bluray. Personally I love remuxes but not everyone can afford the hard drive space. 1080p/720p encodes are good too depending on your screen size, and to the trained eye the difference between a good encode and a bad one is easily differentiated. Encoding as a hobbyist instils a great sense of pride especially amongst the P2P community with all the internal release groups and the competition within. There's many factors that come into play like bit rate and target file size, and an even more overlooked movie viewing experience factor, trueHD audio. There are many popular releasers that can obtain very small file sized encodes with minimal degradation to quality. Which is why people prefer one encoder over another, it all depends on your home theater setup and what you're looking for.