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Originally Posted by kurkosdr
Basically, it all comes down to this: Have you tried squeezing a 2-hour movie on an SVCD? Or even on 2 SVCDs? It's unwatchable, even on a CRT television. You have to go to 4GB (DVD) at minimum, which was considered a huge filesize back then. Meanwhile, a 2-hour movie on 2CDs with MPEG4 ASP at 640x360 offered acceptable quality (for the standards of the day, at least), and even 1CD was considered watchable.
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"Watchable"? 700 MB per 2-hour movie was
the standard. Only as movies approached 2.5 hours did you start to see the 2-CD encodes become more common.