I clicked on one link the other day, only to discover that the vid was 420 Mb. For three and a half minutes of video?

...what the hell were they exporting it as? Uncompressed AVI? There are these magical things called codecs, that were invented a long time ago in a far off land. I even hear they've got this new fangled format called MP4, that can tame even the wildest of High Definition beasts, with nary a pixel out of place, with only a fraction of the space required.