every day i always read the same topic...all around still that topic. ggg....is there no one that can more creative ?...let change the topic to supervcd....sometimes i feel this forum only for beginner.... come'on let's go to advanced....vcd 1.0 & 2.0 is old now...pliz make this forum more value....for the start here i will tell a little bit about svcd. svcd is use vbr & more sharp than standart vcd...when i compare with dvd movie the result is not very diffrent the quality of the picture. untill today somany standalone vcd player can support svcd....the good news is svcd can do dolby digital...but the problem is xing or media player cannot play svcd....but i think in next few month this will be fixed. ok...that it...i hope i can change this forum more value & interesting. bye....go svcd.

-- marine (sub_marine99@yahoo.com), November 13, 1999

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Ver 3 VCD is the so-called SuperVCD that the Chinese have largely come up primarily, with a view to getting away with not having to pay any licensing fees for DVD. Whether they will succeed or not remains to be seen. While it is said to be technically superior to ver 1 & 2, there are no corresponding standards set for it (so far I'm aware of) like Red Book for audio CD and White Book for VCD 1&2 that we can all follow clearly and unambiguously. A lot of us amateurs are as it is already having difficulties and whatnot with the existing VCD standards set in stone in White Book, let alone with something like ver 3, which only a particular group (the Chinese) have had anything to do with. In any case the only thing that's largely preventing people like me from authoring DVDs is the absence, as yet, of inexpensive DVD-R drives and media which should produce material that can play on a standard set-top DVD player. When this happens, I hope not a long way off, then we can all transition from VCD gracefully, ver 1, 2 & 3.

-- EMartinez (epmartinez@hotmail.com), November 14, 1999.