What is the quality of VCD like?
Because of the capacity to hold more data, DVD movies are of more superior quality compared to VCDs. DVD can hold up to 26 more times (6 Gigabits) of data as compared with VCD (650 Megabits). One of the objectives of the MPEG-1 standard for VCD was to get the quality comparable to S-VHS. In practice, picture quality when using a VCD players may somehow be almost as good as laser disc, depending on the encoding. VCDs are playable on any machine capable of playing VCD anywhere in the world. This is because VCDs have no incompatibility problem caused by different formats such as PAL, NTSC & SECAM, and also do not have lock-out codes that disallow you playing movies that are not bought in your region.
Because of the capacity to hold more data, DVD movies are of more superior quality compared to VCDs. DVD can hold up to 26 more times (6 Gigabytes) of data as compared with VCD (650 Megabytes). One of the objectives of the MPEG-1 standard for VCD was to get the quality comparable to S-VHS. In practice, picture quality when using a VCD players may somehow be almost as good as laser disc, depending on the encoding. VCDs are playable on any machine capable of playing VCD anywhere in the world. This is because VCDs have no incompatibility problem caused by different formats such as PAL, NTSC & SECAM, and also do not have lockout codes that disallow you playing movies that are not bought in your region.
One of the objectives of the MPEG-1 standard was to get quality comparable to S-VHS. In practice, picture quality when using a VCD player may somehow be almost as good as laser disc, depending on the encoding. VCDs also have no incompatibility problem caused by different formats such as PAL, NTSC and SECAM, and do not have lock-out codes for different regions.
