Why are all YouTube videos from DVDs uploaded in the 2000s atrocious in quality, but if I rip the same video from the same DVD today, it’s much cleaner?

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Why are all YouTube videos from DVDs uploaded in the 2000s atrocious in quality, but if I rip the same video from the same DVD today, it’s much cleaner?

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People didn’t have fast broadbands nor huge HDDs to store them.

In 2000 it took whole night or more to download a 700MB movie and an entire CD disk to record it on. People ripping them set the resolution and compression loss to optimize file size, not quality.

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