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grancabron
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255 Posts
5/03
Posted - May 25 2004 : 10:17PM
JAVDIRECT sells several japanese bukkake videos that interest me, but they are all in VCD format. What is the resolution of this format and how good is the color? I am guessing that they have copied from a VHS original onto VCD, but don't know for sure. What machines will it play on? Will it play on my computer?
baronorca
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Montana
528 Posts
1/01
Posted - May 25 2004 : 10:24PM
I have made a couple of VCD's and had one asian made VCD, about equal to VHS in picture quality (on a 25" or smaller screen TV). My dvd player plays them with no problem, I haven't tried it on my computer, but would expect no problems.
Saki
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2087 Posts
11/99
Posted - May 25 2004 : 10:25PM
VCD is comparable to VHS in terms of lines of resolution (about 240--half that of DVD), although depending on how it was encoded, the picture can look like crap. VCD's are encoded using MPEG-1, which is what most of the .mpg files you'll find on the internet are encoded with.

You can play VCD's on most standalone DVD players and just about any computer these days. For example, Windows Media Player, RealOne, etc. etc. will play VCDs. And unlike a DVD, you don't need a DVD-ROM drive or a software DVD decoder to play VCDs--they're on traditional CD's.

These days, VCD's are a dying breed...just one step out of the grave compared to VHS.

- Saki [faqs]

VStampede
Member

82 Posts
3/04
Posted - May 26 2004 : 7:57PM
my best description of a VCD is a VHS pretending to be a DVD... I think that about sums it up.

I think Saki pretty much said it all about the quality... it really depends of the encoding.

grancabron
Member

255 Posts
5/03
Posted - May 26 2004 : 9:49PM
Thanks for the replies. Why are companies still putting their stuff on VCD. It can't cost much more to put the same material on DVD, can it? I will probably wait until they put their stuff on DVD - they'll have to make the change soon, I think.
 
snowman872
RainCoatReviews.com

400 Posts
6/00
Posted - May 28 2004 : 4:25AM

Those are often pirate versions of DVD releases in Japan.

-- Snowman

Hardz
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Hell on Earth
877 Posts
6/01
Posted - Jun 6 2004 : 4:34AM
VCD's are burnt on CD's that cost next to nothing but blank dvd's are a lot more expensive.

Most standard VCD's will hold 74 or 80 minutes of video and the quality of the playback not only depends upon the encoding but the player.

I have various machines inc. a portable VCD player and the playback of the portable VCD player beats any of dvd players output of the same discs.

Edited by - Hardz on 6/6/2004 4:47:08 AM




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