Comment VCD - MPEG1 (Score 1) 272
VCDs are MPEG too - MPEG-1. I worked on some of the first encoders back when real-time required specialist DSP hardware. At the time it was technically amazing that you could encode acceptable full video and stereo soundtrack into a standard 1x CD bitstream. Quality however is *very* variable dependent on source material and encoder software... but generally shitty! Also a movie takes 2 (sometimes 3) discs, and getting up to change them is a real pain in the arse.
