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It was amazing being able to fit a full length movie on a CD-ROM though.

Didn't VCDs do the same thing? IIRC the Sega Saturn could play them.

I recall that full length movies on VCD were usually two discs to get decent quality.

Not needing to get up and switch discs because you could use divx or xvid instead was a real life improvement.

And thats another reason why you had two CD drives in tower cases. My 667mhz AMD-K7 had two CD drives, insert both VCDs and nearly seamless watch a movie.

There was the part where you had to double click the media player to make it full screen again however pretty wholesome for its time.

Nowadays, it's just not the same and Ai isn't nostalgic at all.

The stock Saturn needed a VCD expansion card to play them, but some of the Japanese-only models like the Hitachi HiSaturn had it built in.

Agreed!

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