@dvdgangster

It must be nice to be able to use a 50" screen to view DVD Profiler on.  I don't think that many of us are connected to anything remotely close to that size.  While you may "understand [the current filesize] was ok back in the day, but in (soon to be 2009) it's just not good enough..." I doubt you'll find many people who agree with you -- at least insofar as having images that look good on a 50" screen.  I think your best hope is to make your own scans and keep 'em locked and local.  I'm not sure Invelos will ever have the storage capacity for images that suit your large monitor, at least not given the current state of technology.

Quoting Ken Cole:

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In practical tests with verison 3.5.1, the program is able to use quality settings of 94-98 on most images and still keep within the file size limits.  The quality setting used by 3.5 for contribution resizing is 75.

This matches about what I find, when I manually create the JPG image to contribute 
Using GIMP to do the saving, you can preview the file size, and balance the JPG quality setting to get it as close to the 200,000byte limit as possible, and 94-96 is about right (don't think I've reached 98!).
But the algorithm used for resizing is also a factor in IQ [Image Quality], as it can either make text too blurry or [sometimes] overly sharp. This is particularly true for rear covers, with the text. I quite often resize using several different algorithms to try to find the one that works best [to my eyes] for any given cover.

What would be nice is if DVDP didn't recompress imported JPG files if they already met the file dimension and size requirements  then our manually prepared JPGs would pass-through untouched, and not require the file-copying step to revert them back to as-prepared 

Request: could DVDP please have an option to have a default import directory for cover scans? It is really annoying having to re-navigate to the same directory every time, even between closing and opening another profile the only time it seems to remember is while a profile is open, so after selecting front image, searching for a back image starts in the last directory used. Even if not a globally save option, just remembering the last used directory while DVDP is open [for the whole session] would greatly help 

Another annoyance of mine [not related to DVDP's handling of images though] is covers that have been scaled out-of-proportion so that they are 500x700, when they should be smaller in one dimension to stay proportional. This makes things like the UK rating logo look oval instead of round 

Quoting Lewpy:

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Another annoyance of mine [not related to DVDP's handling of images though] is covers that have been scaled out-of-proportion so that they are 500x700, when they should be smaller in one dimension to stay proportional. This makes things like the UK rating logo look oval instead of round 

Odd, my aspect ratio for cove scans never change...  If I resize the cover window, the cover resizes itself but maintains the same aspect ratio.

Quoting widescreenforever:

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50" HTPC =  what is this?

50-inch Home Theater PC (Personal Computer)