Video CD

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A Video CD or VCD is a CD that contains a movie instead of music or a computer program.^[1] It is the "little brother" of the DVD.

Since a DVD can store ten times as much information as a VCD, the quality of a VCD is not as high as that of a DVD, but a VCD is cheaper to make and was playable on devices that were there before the DVD. The quality of the picture is about as good as an analog television with a simple antenna, or a VHS tape.

1. ↑ Wally Wang, The Book of Nero 7: CD and DVD Burning Made Easy (San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2006), p. 49