An earlier Compact Disc format for full-motion video. Introduced in 1993 and developed by Panasonic, Philips, Sony and JVC, a Video CD (VCD) held 74 minutes of VHS-quality video and CD-quality sound ...

Mireth Technology has released version 4.0 of MacVCD X, a Video CD player for the Macintosh. The developer noted that this is the first release of MacVCD that supports the native Video CD format on ...

Once upon time, video codecs and formats were really only the concern of AV nerds, anime freaks and hardcore not-so-legal movie downloaders. Now, even the most part-time of geeks has to deal with them ...

When you hear CD, do you think of compact disc or certificates of deposit — or civil defense? By now, most of us are familiar with the laser-read compact audio disc and think that first — but I often ...

In 1999 I purchased my first DVD player. My wife and I had a small collection of VHS tapes containing videos that we wanted to view using our new purchase. Furthermore, optical media is very ...

On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...