S-VCD Refresher course needed

[Charles Martin]

> From: Matthew Guemple <mo.og at verizon.net>
>
> Could someone remind me of the point of making and S-VCD?

Heh heh. I often wonder that myself.

The MAIN reason people make SVCDs is that they don't yet have a 
Superdrive, but they DO have MPEG-2 (or equivalent quality) material. 
You make SVCDs with a CD-burner.

A second reason is that perhaps you'd like to take a movie with you, 
but your laptop does not have a DVD player. Ditto for "the kids' 
machine," etc.

SVCDs will play in any computer that has a CD drive, and will play in 
many modern DVD players. DVDs of course require a DVD player, something 
not many computers (relatively speaking) have. This can be darn handy 
in some business-video scenarios.

SVCDs are nicer than VHS but not as good as DVD quality. VCDs are not 
quite as good as VHS quality. If you are distributing a video and 
concerned about it being commercially "stolen," these formats can help 
prevent that by being sub-par for commercial release.

Finally, in some cases it's just the cost of the media. Blank CDs are 
maybe a few pennies apiece; Blank DVD-Rs are quite a bit more 
expensive. If by chance you make a coaster, you don't feel so bad when 
it's just a CD-R. :)

_Chas_

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