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VCD's

basically bootlegged movies. ripped movies, either from theaters using cameras or ripped from dvds using encoding software. illegal in the US, but sold mainstream overseas quite a bit. my friend brought back gladiator and mi2 when they were still in theaters back then, they're just on regular CDs you can play on your computer or a dvd player.
 
NONONONONONONONONONONONONO. VCDs are legit. Before DVD there was VCD. The philips CDI played them, Philips even sold the VCD movies. Pioneer still makes them (mostly for overseas consumers). Just because someone burns an illegal movie onto a cd-rom doesnt make it a VCD. VCD is a legit product.
 
Has anyone ever seen some of the VCDs at the computer shows? Some weird movies I never heard of. They have like weird teamups like Stallone and Snipes that I never seen in the US. I guess they are failed movies from the US that are big in Asia.
 
Well Stallone and Snipes were in the movie Demolition Man togther, and it did alright over here.

schola
 
yup. b4 dvds, movies get pressed in vcds, which are a better way of keeping media than vhs. however vcds are popular only in asia, as i have not seen it proliferate in european or even american countries.
 
I live in NYC near Chinatown and they have TONS of imported VCDs. You could get some obscure movies for dirt cheap. Some as low as 5 bucks. I got tons of Jackie Chan movies that way as they are not available on DVD yet. They play fine on all my DVD players, but, of course being that it is mpeg1 there are a lot of artifacts.
 
There are some standards of VCD that still don't play properly on PC's, even with specialist VCD Player.

Windows ME has a movie maker program included, and I believe that Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4 also has a Video-CD creating program...
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There is VCD and SVCD.

VCD is MPEG-1, a little better than VHS quality

SVCD is MPEG-2, and a little less than "great" DVD quality, but about the level
of "good" to "mediocre" DVD quality.

AFAIK both VCD and SVCD files are stored on the CD in .DAT or .MPG format.
So even if your PC will not play the VCD straight out, you can still load the
individual file into your player to watch it.
 
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