[LINK] More imperfect IT reporting

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Thu Apr 7 15:04:03 EST 2005


Gordon Keith wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:54, Daniel Rose wrote:
> 
>>An
>>episode of Desperate Housewives, for example, can be as small as 63MB,
>  
> That must be a compression algorithm that discards low quality data.
> 
> I can't believe that's within a couple orders of magnitude of 20 minutes of 
> video.

Acceptable quality DIVX encoded episodes of the Daily Show (30 minutes I
believe) are 175mb.

http://s4.isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=daily+show&ext=&op=and&nr

Mikal

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