VCD menus help!

[klay51]

I just bought Dumb And Dumber on vcd(original) with the package and everying and on the description it says " It's more than just a movie! The contents of this CD-sized disc include: both widescreen and regular full-frame versions converted from the new High Defintion transfer of the film!,Multiple langauges and subtitles! high-quality Dolby Digital multi-channel surround sound,original theatrical traliers!,backround information on the stars and more! Interactive menus!!" but when I put it in my Toshiba Dvd player that plays vcds it just starts the movie. no menu or choices. Wheres all that other stuff it says it has!?! Do I need a certain player?

[AntnyMD]

Most likely your VCD packaging was simply an unaltered print of the DVD keepcase insert, and doesnt apply to whats actually on your VCD at all.

[klay51]

I was thinking this also but it has the video cd logo on it. or are u just saying that the words were just taken off the dvd case casue they are to lazy to write anymore?

[AntnyMD]

VideoCDs, even out-of-spec ones, cannot accommodate multiple versions of a film on the same disc; cannot support widescreen films unless they are letterboxed into a 4:3 aspect; and cannot contain Dolby Digital anything.

[lafamar]

Klay51,
About all you said on the VCD description, I think it is not a VCD standard/compliant/ISO.

[DVD Master]

To see the "menu" and special features of a VCD you must turn on PBC. If you don't turn on PBC it will run like a cd player and some mpeg file will not be play. Some DVD players have this feature in their set-up menu.

[Feslmogh]

I think you got a bootleg. Where did you get this disc?

[AntnyMD]

Probably some dodgy bloke called Tony "The Butcher" in a back-alley VCD shop in some skanky east London neighbourhood.

Or on the internet.

[klay51]

I got in from VCD Gallery i think. I dont remember tho heh. it may have been off ebay

[vitualis]

What AntnyMD said in his first post is probably right. Many dodgey VCDs will have all sorts of labels and features on the cover -- some which are not even possible on VCDs.

klay51, you're not missing anything. You've just got a dodgey VCD.

Regards.