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Old 07-12-2005, 07:09 PM  
Lane
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Originally Posted by 4Pics
Can someone explain how a 4.7 gig dvd movie is only 720x480p while you are saying hd is even larger, so shouldn't it be even a bigger file size?

I can post a video I downloaded a while back when I get of the best videos i've seen, I believe they were from Cybererotica in their version of HD.
DVD uses MPEG-2 compression, which is a very old technology now.

New compression methods, WMV9 and H.264 (Mpeg-4 Part 10), compress much better.
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