what is the difference between VCD and DVD. Can a vcd be made a dvd. how much will it cost?

Answer 1

VCD = Video CD, generally video at 320x240 or so encoded in MPEG1, roughly VHS quality video about 45 minutes long. You'll need two of them to fit a whole movie. Popular format in Asia as it uses the regular CD media (about 700 MB) with no copy protection.

DVD = Digital Video / Versatile Disc, generally video at 720x480 or so encoded in MPEG2. The disc itself will hold about 4.5 GB which means 2 hours or more of video at the specified video standards.

For exact definitions. please see videohelp.com and click on the appropriate format on the upper / left menu.

VCD can be made into DVD, but why, as it's a total waste of a DVD?

Answer 2

VCD and DVD sounds too similar and both have the same similarity of recording/play backing the Video Files.
The main difference between the two are the Picture quality they produce.DVD produces the digital quality which is better than the general quality.
Regarding changing the VCD to DVD, normally the same file will be rewritten in the DVD format, just to enable u to read from the DVD Player, but, the actual change in the Picture quality will be available only if the entire film is re made with the Digital quality in the Laboratory (Film Laboratory).
Normal Copying/converting does not costs much, if u have a DVD writer u can do it urself.
But when u want the actual difference u will have to spend a lots of rupee, because it is too costly job.

Answer 3

Vcd Quality

Answer 4

Video CD (aka VCD, View CD, Compact Disc digital video) is a standard digital format for storing video on a Compact Disc. VCDs are playable in dedicated VCD players, nearly all personal computers, most modern DVD-Video players, and some video game consoles.

DVD (commonly "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc") is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. DVDs resemble compact discs as their diameter is the same (120 mm (4.72 inches) or occasionally 80 mm (3.15 inches) in diameter), but they are encoded in a different format and at a much higher density

There is no such thing as a Blank VCD. A VCD contains MPEG-1 video data, which can be used to watch a movie or video clips etc. on a computer with a cd-rom drive, most standard dvd players and of course any standalone vcd player. If a VCD was blank, it would just be a blank cd-r.

So if you record a movie on a cd, instead of a DVD, it is a VCD. Simple as that.

So when looking to record VCD, you would look for any blank cd to record on. CD may run up to half cheaper than a DVD disk.

Answer 5

The difference between the vcd and dvd is of their storing capacity.The storing capacity of vcd is 700 MB or 80 Minutes and dvd is about 4 GB or 180 Minutes

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what is the difference between VCD and DVD. Can a vcd be made a dvd. how much will it cost?

Answer 7

Dvd's have a capacity 7 times that OF A VCD.
Contents of a vcd can b transferred 2 a dvd but not viceversa.
That wont cost u much.

Answer 8

vcd is video compact disc while dvd is digital video disc,,, yes it is possible to vcd be made a dvd by putting the vcd files in your computer,,, then you should have a dvd writer and a blank dvd in order for you to copy it................................. capich'e

Answer 9

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(m) 1)STORAGE CAPACITY:- VCD-maximum capacity is 700MB(enough for aprox.60-70min of video) DVD-maximum cap. is 18GB(aprox 9hours of video) 2)COMPRESSION METHOD:-since almost all digital video formats are compressed in one form or the other,these 2 are also compressed but with different methods which then make the 2 signals incompatible with one another. VCD-uses MPEG1 compression scheme DVD-uses MPEG2 compression scheme(which is superior and more effective than MPEG1) 3)PIXEL COUNT:-the higher the pixel count,the better the resolution. VCD-uses 352x288 pixels(PAL).This correspond to VHS quality. DVD-uses 720x576 pixels(PAL).This corresponds to full broadcast quality. 4)HORIZONTAL TV LINES OF RESOLUTION:-the rule here also is the more the lines the sharper the image quality. VCD-approx. 240 lines(VHS quality) DVD-approx.500 lines(PAL broadcast quality) 5)VIDEO BITRATE:-probably the most important and accurate indices of measuring the quality of digital video image quality.This is because 2 video formats can share the same amount of pixel count and lines of resolution but still differ considerably in bitrates,ex.miniDV has the same pixel count and lines as DVD but has over 2.5 times the bitrate. This is measured in bits per second(kilobits or Megabit/sec). VCD-uses 1.15 Mbits/sec(for video signal only.Audio not included) DVD-uses maximum 9.8 Mbits/sec.Most of the hollywood movies u see on DVD are recorded with bitrates between 4-7.5 Mbits/s to save recording space on the disc and the picture quality still look very good. 6)AUDIO QUALITY:-here DVD is also way superior and more flexible. VCD-2 channel of 44.1khz sample rate audio(Audio CD quality).Theoretically multi channel Dolby surround sound is possible but never done in practice. DVD-multi channel audio of up to 192khz sample rate quality possible.U name it,Dolby surround pro logic,dolby digital AC3(5.1),MPEG2(5.1),DTS,2 channel Dolby etc. MENUE-here also are differences VCD-simple and basic menue which includes access to each video chapters and very little else. DVD-the menu here is far more complex and versatile.Incorporations of 3D animations and graphic images are very possible. MISCELLANEOUS-dvd provides multiple video tracks for multiple video angles at the press of the button,multiple audio tracks for multi lingual soundtracks.VCD has none of these. Some of u may dispute this,but it is technically true that the picture quality of a optimally recorded VHS videotape is superior to the image quality of VCD.This is due to the fact that VCD is a very highly compressed digital format and is consequently saddled with compression artefacts that appears in the images from time to time as objects move about in the picture or by camera movements(motion artefacts). VHS on the other hand being an analog video format knows no such artefacts and can reproduce moving images more smoothly without any motion artefacts whatsoever. Also because it is an analog format,it relies heavily on quality of tape material,the quality of recording VTR and the quality of material source(ex.master tape). So just forget naija recorded tapes as a means of reference 'cos firstly,the tape quality are generally bad,recording VTRs are even worse and the material source are of dubious quality.The end results are the qualities we see all the time.

Answer 10

VCD vs DVD.....It is not only the difference of letter C...but is the difference of FORMATS both of them can READ.