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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...gigabytes in digital form. Using a compression standard developed by Microsoft, of all companies, and hacked by those enterprising programmers, DivX squishes movies down to fewer than 700 megabytes, small enough to fit on a CD. To watch a movie in DivX format, all you need is the DivX codec program, which tells your computer how to decompress the file, and a DivX player. You can download both player and codec for free on DivX websites such as www.gdivx.com and divx.ctw.cc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At The Movies: Next Up: DVDs | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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