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Indeed: they were early adopters of many things: Ogg, Vorbis, Matroska (and the advanced features like linked ordered chapters which is designed for the use-cas

Indeed: they were early adopters of many things: Ogg, Vorbis, Matroska (and the advanced features like linked ordered chapters which is designed for the use-case in OP's scenario), h.264 High10 Profile, advanced animated subtitles formats... I think the long answer has something to do with what they do benefitting from it more than other things, and the short answer is "because they're geeks"; so they perhaps care less about slow hardware adoption of things like 10-bit than other encoders.

Leynos 12y ago
They also don't have releasing standards to adhere to. As was mentioned earlier, most fansub viewers are watching on their computers, which can cope with newer codecs, subtitle formats and container features with ease, where-as western TV rips are targeted at viewers using lowest common denominator hardware (and encoded according to a set of standards agreed between groups). Changes to those standards can cause significant upheaval, as happened when the standard def TV groups multilaterally agreed to switch from XviD in AVI to h.264 in MP4 container. AIUI, the tertiary anime groups, who take h.264/MKV/ASS releases and re-encode as MP4 with burned in subtitles, cater to those using lower spec hardware but who still want high def video.
Kayou 12y ago
I think that Anime release groups are also a lot less "regulated" than US TV rip scene. For animes, you can just ask your friends to help you translate an uncovered anime in your country, you get the "raw" from japan and you sub. For TV, they have rules as complicated as this: http://scenerules.irc.gs/n.html?id=2011_TV_X264_u2.nfo http://scenerules.irc.gs/n.html?id=2011_TV_X264_u2.nfo if they don't follow them, they're excluded from the scene.