Pocket PC and Movie Viewing

I have a Pocket PC and the other night decided that I would try saving an episode of Futurama onto my SD card so that I could watch it on my Pocket PC. I have a TV tuner card on my computer that records and saves it as mpeg-2 files. The Futurama episode that I saved was about 550mb. I downloaded TMpegEnc and converted the file down to about 100mb (mpeg-1). I was then able to load the file into Movie Maker and edit out the commercials, and save it to a Pocket PC compatible file. And then finally save that file to my SD card. So all this sounds cool right, well not really. It took me 4 hours to convert the 550mb file down to 100mb. Then it took me another 20 minutes just to load the file into Movie Maker, which split the file into 150 different clips. That took me about another 1/2 hour to build the storyboard, drag all the clips down and in order while editing out the commercials. Then it took me another 15 minutes to create the movie from Movie Maker. So in less then 6 hours I was watching a 1/2 hour episode of Futurama.
I have two thoughts on this. One, computers need to get faster. When we can edit a 2GB file easily then we will have a good video-editing machine. Second, why doesn't the manufacture of my TV tuner card have the ability to save to a version that I could then view on my Pocket PC. They have the ability to save me a lot of time.
Well I did, in fact, find that I could save from my TV tuner directly to an mpeg-1 file. It was not the same as the 100mb file that I mentioned above, it was about 300mb. But it is easier to deal with, and saves me the 4-hour conversion.