Recently, while waiting around for a Buffy, the Vampire Slayer episode, I started chatting with other people on the channel. This doesn't seem to bother mIRC diehards. That's relatively small, but even on a cable or ADSL connection, a two-hour show in DivX can still take six hours to download. DivX files squish a 90-minute DVD-quality film into about 650 Mbytes.
Video files sometimes appear in the fat MPEG-2 or slimmer MPEG-1 format, but many recent transmissions are encoded in DivX, a hack of Windows Media Player sarcastically named for the defunct DVD standard. You have to be there to accept the file when your number is called, and then wait several more hours before it's transferred onto your hard drive. There tend to be more takers than givers, so, if you pick a popular, large file, you might wait in line for hours just to download. First, you have to search for what you want, after which you hop in a queue. One drawback to this mystical oasis of digital media is that it's a long hike to the water.
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