VCDs from EurekaMovies.com -- quality less than expected...

[addicted2scifi]

I ordered the Star Wars Trillogy from EurekaMovies.com and when I played them (both on my VCD capable DVD player and my standalone VCD player), I observed that the quality is no better than what I can produce using my standard computer equipment when copying a DVD to 2 VCDs. I expected very high-quality playback coming from VCDs made by a company that actually makes VCDs, but I was fairly disappointed.

What is that? Shouldn't they (VideoVan, I believe is the company that made the discs) have taken more effort to produce a better quality Trillogy? Or is it not possible to using MPEG-1 VCD compression?

Thanks.
Ryan
ryanvan@ptialaska.net

[bumurc]

I AGREE.

[Epi]

Your right addicted2scifi I felt a serious case of buyers remorse when I bought these discs. As long as George Lucas is taking to make the DVD's for "quality purposes" you would expect the VCD's to be very good. Go figure, Huh?

[WizyWyg]

What? The first trilogy isn't available on DVD. Epi, you do not make sense

vcd's are lower quality than VHS. What would you expect from them?

[Epi]

I never said the first trilogy was available on DVD, just that George Lucas said in an interview that he wanted to take his time making the DVD's. I was just making a comparison. If he really cared about quality he would not have licensed the VCD's which were not very good.

[calamari]

Get a laserdisc player.. the Star Wars THX discs look great on it. The discs are a little expensive right now because of Episode 2, but a couple years back I got the 3 movies for $25 and a Pioneer player for $50. It turned out to be pretty inexpensive considering all the other LD movies I got off E-bay for $10 vs $20-$25 I would have paid for a DVD (back then). Now a lot of discs are $5.

calamari