Best compression option?

Hello all, I am trying to make a recording of a village council meeting small enough for download.
As it sits now in DV format, it is just minutes over 3 hours long and 37gb's big.
I have used Mpeg4 and got it down to 442mb. I tried the Sorenson 3 codec, because this book I have here about iMovie said it was a good compression tech, and it compressed it to 9.74GB, obviously, not a good size for download.
What I am asking is this, is there a way to make it smaller and still watchable.
I resized it down to 320x240 as well.

Jason,
Did you edit and cut out the dead spots (eg. long pauses, waitng for someone to walk to the podium, etc)?
If not, removing useless footage (barring legal impedements) could greatly reduce the size of the video.
If you cut enough useless footage maybe 320 X 240 is still a possibility (160 x 120) is rather small.
You could even break it up in topics, eg. taxes, education, etc. and post several videos covering different topics where the viewer can click and go straight to the subject of interest.
Youtube.com lets you post up to 10min/100MB (320 X 240 viewing) at a time and can be restricted to private viewing for members belonging to a certain community or having access priviledges to the site. If you have a topic lasting longer than 10min/100MB it can be uploaded as part1, part2, etc.
In my opinion 160 X 120 would be my very, very, last option.
Just some thoughts.

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