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Video CD
optical home video format / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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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 it is ten times cheaper to make. The quality of the picture is about as good as an analog television with a simple antenna, or a VHS tape.