How many GB is a 2 hour movie? (2024)

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How many GB is a 2 hour movie? ›

Streaming Movies or TV

This year's Christmas presents could be sorted: scientists have invented a DVD-sized disc that can store millions of hours of video, enough for all your favorite movies and TV shows—and much more besides. Current DVDs only have a storage capacity of about 4.5 GB, which can contain about 2 hours of video footage.

1080p video (1920 x 1080 resolution) at 30 frames per second and a bit rate of 8 Mbps will take up approximately 4 GB of storage space for a 2-hour video. 4K video (3840 x 2160 resolution) at 30 frames per second and a bit rate of 20 Mbps will take up approximately 10 GB of storage space for a 2-hour video.

The resolution you use also affects the amount of data you use. According to Netflix, you use about 1GB of data per hour for streaming a TV show or movie in standard definition and up to 3GB of data per hour when streaming HD video.

On average at 1080p a 2 hour movie would use about 7 or 8 Gbps. If you were to watch a movie at a different quality like 720p, you would use about 0.9GB per hour. 2K and 4K would use about 3 GB and 7.2 GB an hour, which doesn't put into account other factors.

This means you'll use around 2 GB to stream a two-hour SD movie, 6 GB to stream the HD version or 14 GB for the 4K stream. A half-hour TV show would be 500 MB for the SD version, 1.5 GB for the HD version or 3.5 GB for 4K.

A DVD-5 is a single layer DVD that holds up to 4.7GB of data (around 120-133 minutes of video depending on compression). DVD-9 is a dual layer single sided DVD that holds up to 8.5GB of data (around 240 minutes of video depending on compression).

At a typical bit rate of 5 megabits per second (5 Mbps), an hour of video would require approximately 2.25 gigabytes (GB) of storage space [1].

Typically, downloaded standard definition Digital Movie files take up approximately 1-2 Gigabytes of space, and high definition files can take up to 2-4 GB.

How big is a 4K 2 hour video? ›

Take this into consideration: An one hour of standard definition video needs about 12.7GB of storage space, or approximately 217MB every minute. A full hour of 4K RAW footage requires nearly 110GB of storage space, which is approximately 2 G.B. per minute.

You could view approximately 30 hours of high-quality streamed video with 100GB of data. So that's approximately one hour per day. However, if you watch in standard or low resolution, you can stream much, much more, with Netflix's low-quality level allowing for approximately 600 hours of streaming with 100GB of data.

Based on the above factors, a 100 GB data allowance should generally allow for a significant amount of Netflix streaming. With conservative estimates of data usage per hour, you can stream approximately 33-100 hours in SD, 25-33 hours in HD, or around 14 hours in UHD.

Twenty years ago, the average length of a top box-office hit was a tick under two hours. Now, it's two hours and twelve minutes—about eleven percent longer. Go back even further: hit movies today are fifty percent longer than they were in the 1930s. And that's just the average.

Properly encoded in h. 265 about 1.5GB for a 120-minute movie.

Conversely, a digital versatile disc (DVD) has a maximum storage capacity of 4.7 GB, which is over five hundred minutes of audio or more than three hours of video. Dual layer DVDs and HD DVDs can double or quadruple this capacity, but generally available DVDs at typical retailers contain 4.7GB of space.

store 8.5GB on a single sided disc

With up to 8.5GB of space on a single-sided, double layer DVD disc, save up to 16 hours of VHS video, 4 hours of personal, high-quality DVD video or up to 8.5GB of important information.

A standard single-sided, one-layer DVD can hold 4.7 gigabytes of data and 8.5 GB if it's a double-layer disc. A single-layer HD-DVD stores up to 15 GB of storage capacity, and a dual-layer disk provides up to 30 GB.

A standard single-layer DVD can store up to 4.7 GB of data, a dual-layer DVD up to 8.5 GB. Variants can store up to a maximum of 17.08 GB.