What are the benefits of VCD format?
Video CD (VCD) is a digital recording format that allows you to record video on a compact disk. This format has a number of advantages over other types of recording. VCDS can be displayed by a number of different types of players, including most DVD players and CD-ROM. They are also without a region, which means they can play them with equipment made in any country. Although the format in the US has limited success, it will make it very well against other formats internationally. VCDs have become popular enough in Asia to practically replace VHS. Unlike VCD players, VCR do not work well in high humidity and never have installed the market base in Asia they did in North America.
VCD format allows you to store 74 minutes of sound and videos on standard CD. Sound and video are stored in MPEG-1 format. In the NTSC format, the VCD 352 x 240 pixels are at 29.97 frames per second and 352 x 288 pixels running at 25 frames per second in PAL format. The sound is managed on the quality of CD 44.1 kHz. The quality of the video isRoughly equivalent to VHS.
VCD's versatility is increased by MPEG-1 compression. VCDs can play VCD players, most DVD players and on any CD-ROM computer. This provides an advantage over the DivX format that requires players to decode the MPEG-4 format. VCDs can also be bilingual; The format includes stereo sound sound and VCD players allow you to play the right or left audio track. This allows users to choose between two languages.
VCD format offers more benefits in DVD format. Unlike DVDs, the VCD format is without a region. No matter where the VCD was made, it will play on any VCD player in the world. Many VCD players can adapt to various frames and Pixels resolution NTSC and PAL/SECAM TVs.
Low VCD costs are also significant as compared to DVD. On the VCD even the Blockbuster movies are half or lessICH counterparts DVD. Some titles are released on VCDs before you can find them on DVD, and some movies that will never be available on DVDs can be found at VCD.
VCD format is also less stiff than DVD. Consumers who follow the VCD are rarely advertising or exclusion of liability and can rarely skip any part of the disk at any time.
Super Video CD (SVCD) is similar to VCD format, but with higher resolution. The SVCD resolution is 480 x 480 pixels at 29.97 frames per second. One SVCD contains about 35 minutes of sound and videos.