Video CD (VCD) Review & Test
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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Love your opening , “Punches” , puts a big smile on my face. Please do keep your You Tube videos comin’.. You are the best !!
Cheers! 👊
i have a soft spot for VCD, as it was the #1 home entertainment format in my region. when viewed through perspective of the past, i prefer VCD over VHS. there were VCD players with disc changers, so having 2 or more discs was not really a problem. it was from 1993, so obviously it was designed for CRT TVs.
its basically a low-res DVD, and it was quite fun to be able to play movies on computers back then, while it would not be easy doing that with VHS. its funny to see Disney eventually implemented "Disney Fast Play" which basically treats DVD like VHS/VCD, play everything without menu screen.
the support for VCD also surprises me, i thought my BDP wont play it, but it does, and when i pause it, the progress bar does appear. Windows Media Player will detect and play VCDs automatically.
that said, i have issues with Chinese and Hong Kong VCDs myself, size of the mandarin subtitle thats too large being one of the reasons. i avoid chinese VCDs as much as i can...
but that's just my opinion 😊
I remember a mate of mine who'd been to HK in 1999 had a bunch of VCD movies we could watch on his PC. Drunken Master 2 was a smash. I think if they had come out in the UK by '96 they could have been a hit, but DVD was so much better (and got big here by 1998-1999).
Hey thank you for this video! I actually decided to seak out the back to future vcds and got the whole trilogy xD
Thanks for this video :) I kinda like the Videocd format, I think maybe because it feels like the underdog for some reason. It came out at an interesting time, more reliable than VHS (at a time where it was beginning to show its age a bit) with comparable quality, but seemed to be short lived in the west as the DVD adoption grew, and with the extra capacity of the DVD, the VCD couldn't really compete. Still, they were cheap to produce and you didn't really need a powerful CPU to decode it. It had its time and place i suppose. I'll hold on to the ones i have for sure! Cheers
I seem to remember that the Dreamcast could play VCDs back in the late 90s/early 2000s, hence it was popular in some East Asia countries. I could be wrong about that.
Some cd based systems released in some Asian countries could do vcd natively. There was a special version of the PlayStation released on Hong Kong that definitely could.
I have a couple movies in this format, my father would travel overseas and bring them back to me sometimes. Yeah, you are right DVD killed this format, and as an early adapter, it never really took off in America at all. Most people I know never knew they existed.
20 years ago VCD was bad. Today it's crap!!!
Yup!
That last intro punch got me right between the eyes. Too close to the screen. Once things were up and running, was interested in this. Still lovin’ the posts 😀. More and more if you please.
Hope your eyes are ok? 😄
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I am playing Vcd on my cd-i...it is meh but oh well...i feel intellectually superior to those watching Netflix lol
I had some vcds for ps1 they played with plug in ad on 💩
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VCD video is encoded using MPEG-1 and DVD video using MPEG-2.
The resolution of VHS is comparable to DVD, so I can only imagine how awful VCD movies look.
It is actually possible to write MPEG-4 video to a Data CD and have it look better than a DVD. However there is no compatibility support for it playing such video except with special computer software.
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Yeah spotted it one of your older videos@@UTILITARIANTVUK BTW there was also SVCD format as well I have a lot of original VCD's I believe yousr might be a pirate more pirates than originals about. Some of the originals are really good quality especially the James Bond films/Star Trek pretty useless in todays world.
Oooh. Vintage format. We had Electric Dreams on VCD way back when you couldn't get it on any other format other rathan 2nd hand VHS. SVCD was a much better quality picture but you only got circa 36 minutes per CD. Remember seeing a Queen Greatest hits disc playing in a shop when VCD was launched and it looked hideously blocky. Worth revisiting just to remind us how poor some formats were. Keep punchin'
Had Queens Greatest Hits on vinyl, played it to death!
For a format that didn't last I burned thos video to vcd. For shits and giggles.