VHS vs VCD

[northernshine]

I want a answer to this age old question: Which format can offer the best quality, VHS or VCD ? Now, I don't care about the technical details. What I care about is how they compare on a TV screen. In other words, which one will look better on a TV screen: a professionally made VHS movie or a professionally made VCD movie ?

[guns1inger]

VHS. VCD is prone to blocky artifacts in dark or high-motion scenes, even when professionally encoded and produced. The only advantage over VHS is that they don't degrade over time the way the surface of a VHS tape can. Also, depending on how you calculate relative resolution, VHS has a higher relative resolution than VCD.

[whitejremiah]

to be quite honest, professionally made VCD looks like garbage.......at least the one's ive seen anyhow......even when compared to most homebrew vcd's......it's really kinda hard to compare resolution with a vhs tape, as vhs is purely analog....as for sound quality, generally speaking, vcd has at least slightly higher audio quality...neither of the formats though, are very good...and in my eyes, at least, are both obsolete....as far as cd based video storage, your much better off with svcd......