Originally Posted by subc

file size VS quality is becoming less of an issue thanks to the codec used. H264 deliver high quality video at small bitrates, hence no need to buffer and wait for long (not to mention that in MP4 files with h264 encoding, is possible to set the buffering time in the header of the file, and as long as the bandwith of the client is plenty, playback will happen almost instantaneously)

besides, unlike the cookie cutter templates most people use to encode their videos, the samples on that page are encoded per scene, and customized depending on the content for each clip. Trying to compare or achieve the quality on those samples with HD porn is completely unrealistic.