Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 7:53 pm
Sorry for being so scatter brained it is finals week and you know how stressful that can be.
What I did was posted on every home theater, dvd, and video forum I could find out there and all the responses were mostly lame, everyone generally tends to think there never were any VCD movies sold in the US, but I found one guy who quoted from an article basically saying that most discs were not films but training and industrial videos used by big companies and that there was no master list out there with all the Hollywood produced discs. Considering all the time I have spend digging for this I took his word for it without really digging any further from there.
Honestly I am still not convinced that in 3 years they only released 125 films DVD and LaserDisc both had more than that in their first couple of years so to me I just don't buy that "master list" as being complete there has to be more out there. I don't see any films by Disney, Fox, or even Sony in there. You would think that they would have produced something I know Disney is very picky about their home video releases but I am pretty sure they had a few on LaserDisc.
I guess it is driving me crazy. I mean true the Chinese stuff is out there but that only makes it harder looking for US stuff. Especially from just a historical stand point I mean damn it wasn't even that long ago how can everything on the subject just be buried and forgotten. I think I am going to have to go beyond the damn web and do some real investigating if I am going to get to the bottom of this.
After all I am a journalism/film student maybe I should make this into a documentary I mean I don't know if anyone else has tackled the issue it seams VCD only ever gets a vague mention of being in between LD and DVD if it even gets that much.
What I did was posted on every home theater, dvd, and video forum I could find out there and all the responses were mostly lame, everyone generally tends to think there never were any VCD movies sold in the US, but I found one guy who quoted from an article basically saying that most discs were not films but training and industrial videos used by big companies and that there was no master list out there with all the Hollywood produced discs. Considering all the time I have spend digging for this I took his word for it without really digging any further from there.
Honestly I am still not convinced that in 3 years they only released 125 films DVD and LaserDisc both had more than that in their first couple of years so to me I just don't buy that "master list" as being complete there has to be more out there. I don't see any films by Disney, Fox, or even Sony in there. You would think that they would have produced something I know Disney is very picky about their home video releases but I am pretty sure they had a few on LaserDisc.
I guess it is driving me crazy. I mean true the Chinese stuff is out there but that only makes it harder looking for US stuff. Especially from just a historical stand point I mean damn it wasn't even that long ago how can everything on the subject just be buried and forgotten. I think I am going to have to go beyond the damn web and do some real investigating if I am going to get to the bottom of this.
After all I am a journalism/film student maybe I should make this into a documentary I mean I don't know if anyone else has tackled the issue it seams VCD only ever gets a vague mention of being in between LD and DVD if it even gets that much.