Where did you acquire this video set may I ask?
I guess that the version http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158417/ is better. Still, it must be a rainy day for watching it 45 min x94 episodes = 70.5 hours !
Here is a comment on this video:
This is amazing..., 7 July 2005
Author: Voivod-2 from Berkeley, CA
...if you have the time to watch it consistently, and give it your attention. This is a very demanding piece of work— there are many characters, and many plots going on simultaneously. Stop watching for a few days and you might just forget what was going on. Nevertheless, this is an amazing piece of work, incredibly moving, and affecting like very few works before it. I can't overstate how incredibly emotional the experience of watching it from beginning to end was; the ending, in particular, is a extremely powerful.
True, the scenes are a bit drawn out at times; personally, as director, I would have shaved off about 10-15 minutes from each episode. Obviously, the special effects are outdated as well, but they are sufficient to get the point across, which is the most important thing.
Ideally, this series should be watched when you have 4-5 days dedicated to just watching it from beginning to end. Yeah, that's a big dedication, but it is also an incredibly rewarding experience.
If 70 hours is a long time consider this:
Between 1919 and 1966, scholars at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, compared the various manuscripts of the epic from India and abroad and produced the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata, on 13,000 pages in 19 volumes, followed by the Harivamsha in another two volumes and six index volumes. This is the text that is usually used in current Mahabharata studies for reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
13 000 x 1 - 3 minutes/page = 217 - 650 hours!