I'm Still Living In A VCD-World
The "thing" about my "reel past" was I had extensively collected and watched VCDs (aka "Video Compact Discs"), before upgrading to DVDs, and even then I did not upgrade every film I wanted to too! There was just too many! AND access to them was not as wide and vast as it would be available via online purchases these days too, much less taking about "streaming".
The days when "physical media" literally meant a physical tangible thing you'd need to hunt/look for, buy back home, and put/insert into a physical player connected to your television, to be able to watch said films/shows.
The entire act and journey essentially contributed to the "value" of the item, not monetary but of the effort made to procure and own said VCD/film, likewise VHS and DVDs, and of course even Blu-rays. In my corner of the woes, the less effort made to procure something, the easier it will be to get rid of it, IMHO.
And now I am saddled with many a titles that I can no longer watch but still cannot let go of, the internal struggle of a sentimental hoarder of things and memories … and yes, I had already chucked a whole library of none too long ago too...!
As is below clip watchable here, cheers).
Honestly thanks to the affordability and availability of VCDs (both legit and bootlegs), I was able to devour many a titles that otherwise would not have appeared on the silver screens back in the day, even for film festivals! From Japanese to South Korean, to assorted European countries, beyond the Hollywood and Hong Kong-fare which dominated the local theatres', and this was a blessed boon I'd taken for granted before, no doubt.
A number of films too have remained in my "Top 20 Best Watches Of All Time" too, and only a handful were "upgraded" to DVDs, as some were hardly to gain access to, back in the day. Maybe one day I'll be able to afford them "again", but honestly I am not holding my breath LOL
The range / selection was vastly wider and from many a countries, which helped in me being able to immerse in the reel-life which I was working in too … Alas, thru the years, I watched lesswer and lesser films and no doubt diluted / dulled my passion for, I suspect. The VCDs are meant to be in memory of that… or maybe I should just keep the jewel cases and covers, and dump the discs inside, since I can no longer watch them…? LOL
Cheers,
Andy TOYSREVIL
WHAT-IS: "A Video Compact Disc (VCD) is a digital format from 1993 for storing video on standard CD-R/RW discs, utilizing MPEG-1 compression with a resolution of 352x240 (NTSC) or 352x288 (PAL). Offering quality roughly comparable to VHS, it was widely popular in Asia before DVD dominance." A 74-minute CD holds about 74 minutes of video, often requiring two discs per movie. A longer duration film requied more than 2 discs 5tlo fit the entirety of the film(s).
Comments
Post a Comment