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ertoili
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Post subject: Re: Anyone still authoring and burning vcd for fun ? Posted: 15 Aug 2021, 18:37 |
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Sadly new BD players cant play old vcd releases. The use..well sometimes i just put new remastered BD editions of classic anime to VHS or VCD to look "classic" again on my crt tvs With live action movies at 2mbps you are free of pixelation and packs of 100 - 200 cd-r cost nothing today (internet) If you hate "movie files" is a super fast way encoding/burning your own editions on self playing discs
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substance
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Post subject: Re: Anyone still authoring and burning vcd for fun ? Posted: 16 Aug 2021, 01:42 |
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signofzeta wrote: VCD sucks. I feel the same. If certain content doesn’t exist on at least Laserdiscs then I don’t watch it. I can understand the experimental and fun reason the OP has. I once bought these dual sided DVD blanks to make my own mini LDs, I even tracked down a Sony DVD changer which auto flips.
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rein-o
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Post subject: Re: Anyone still authoring and burning vcd for fun ? Posted: 16 Aug 2021, 02:20 |
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signofzeta wrote: VCD sucks. Yes they do suck, but from what I remember on earlier DVD players they do look much better now than on those player. VCD is a very low quality format but it was great as we all know for the Asian markets, cheap and lots of TV shows on many discs that you can't get from OTA TV. I only have 1 in my collection now but could give or take it, wish there were more reasons to keep the format but its so hard to find them for reasonable prices.
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Post subject: Re: Anyone still authoring and burning vcd for fun ? Posted: 16 Aug 2021, 03:19 |
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rein-o wrote: Do new DVD players play them anymore??? I had about 3 VCDs in the past year and only have 1 now, all my players play them, even my cheapo bluray player.
While I like substance has posted in a past topic, I seem to stream all my stuff now, once in a while I'll binge and run some LDs and DVDs but not as much as I used to. Really get into it when I just want to enjoy some old stuff that I like and don't want to be bothered with ads as I don't pay for my streaming, just free stuff.
Yes I did buy one to try but its cheap and I use it for the DVDs. Won't bother upgrading the films I enjoy that's the main issue. Plenty of DVD players don't have support for them, or don't list it. Maybe it's possible some players support it even if it isn't labeled as such since it's not exactly important. I have 1 or 2 players that didn't play a VCD I have. Been awhile since I tested that.
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rcarlson
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Post subject: Re: Anyone still authoring and burning vcd for fun ? Posted: 16 Aug 2021, 20:30 |
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ertoili wrote: I think that "mpeg-2" is a "mpeg-1 superset" ,all DVD players should play VCD/SVCD unless the brand restricts the software consciously to not recognize the carpet structure of the vcd disc. DVD players definitely have self-imposed software restrictions on what they will play (region codes for example, which aren't physical or technical hurdles at all).
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Post subject: Re: Anyone still authoring and burning vcd for fun ? Posted: 19 Aug 2021, 16:04 |
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Haven't trying making a new VCD in a while. Only started doing so in the early 00s when downloading fansubbed anime was starting up and I wanted to bring some over to a friend's house to watch on a TV (so everyone wasn't gathering around a 15" computer monitor.) So I would burn a few episodes to VCD and bring my Sega Saturn with the PhotoCD/VCD card over so we all could watch. It's amazing how much video compression has advanced since then. If you encode a video at the same bitrate and resolution as MPEG-1 VCD was set to at the whitebook standard (1150kbps, 352x240) with a newer compression codec like h.264, the difference would be dramatic to say the least. Funny aside though, a month ago I went to a shop called "Barracks Trading Post" down where I used to live in Southern NJ which specializes in used electronics. They actually had a standalone VCD player there. Can't remember the brand, but I found that amusing seeing that sitting next to some DVD and blu-ray players. Might go back there again soon as they had a Betamax VCR that I'm thinking of picking up. Oh yeah, and I just now recall of a site that I was looking through when I was looking up region free DVD players back in the early 00s selling standalone VCD recorders. These ones to be exact . . . Terrapin TX0002 VCD Recorder. . . retail price on those was $599!! I can't imagine they sold all that well.
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