On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:18:52 GMT, "kgf" wrote:

>Check out http://www.vcdhelp.com/comparison.htm for comparisons. I just
>looked at my first VCD sample on my Apex 500W, and I wasn't impressed. It's
>supposedly 330 lines of resolution vs. 240 for VHS, but the short video I
>examined looked pretty poor. I also looked at an S-VCD example that was
>pretty darn good (500 lines per the above webpage), and looked as good as
>DVD on my TV using an S-VHS input.

Being a picture-quality nut, I was surprised how good
a 15-minute Mini-DV video could look on a VCD in mpg1
_when_played_on_a_computer_, not on a TV...