Posted by the dog from that film you saw on 10/05/06 18:19

"mo" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message
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> Back To The Future (and many others) are on there at only around 4.9gb -
> not
> much bigger than a full DVD would be - how comes the files are not
> massive -
> or do they just make better use of the space? (these are 720p files)
>
>
> I noticed 'The Core' is up at 17gb! What kind of a sick fuck would
> downlaod
> a film at 17gb?????
>
>



some people re-encode them with the x264 codec which is far better at
compressing than mpeg2.
i prefer them in their mpeg2 format as originally broadcast.

oh and... downloaded all 10+ gig of return of the living dead 2 (!) - i'm a
sucker for hi def :)

if you think 17gb is big dont look at something like laurence of
arabia.......


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