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I found a “blender” magazine on cd rom and decided to see if it was still usable recently. While the menus don’t work on my intel Mac, the video files are read

I found a “blender” magazine on cd rom and decided to see if it was still usable recently. While the menus don’t work on my intel Mac, the video files are readable but so small and very pixelated. It really was pretty full, but the web has really replaced this kind of thing. The disk was surprisingly full though at 600 mb of content. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(magazine) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(magazine)

kccqzy 9y ago
Probably because early video codecs are terrible. Nowadays with modern codecs we can encode "higher-resolution" (like 320p or 480p) videos that are smaller in file size than the old postage stamp sized videos.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  Yep, when divx hit the net and could compress (mangle?) a full length movie to fit on a single CD was a big deal. Before then there was VCD that used MPEG to split a movie across multiple CDs, iirc.
  - glandium 9y ago
    Usually 2 CDs, at lower resolution than DivX.