Video CD titles from the US/UK from mid 90s

[segagamer12]

Hi guys found this interesting thought I would share for those who might be into this sort of thing.


http://cdii.blogspot.com/2007/01/phi...asterlist.html

USA
1) 48 Hours - 31069-03252
2) The Accused - 310 690 3572
3) The Addams Family - 310-690-330-2
4) Addams Family Values - 310-690-326-2
5) Airplane - 31069-03272
6) An Officer & A Gentleman - 31069-03502
7) Andre - 310-690-341-2
8) ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER: PREMIERE - 31069-02972
9) Annie Hall - 310-690-422-2
10) ANOTHER 48 HOURS - 31069-03542
11) Apocalypse Now - 310-690-305-2
12) Baby Boom - 310-690-425-2
13) BASIC INSTINCT - 31069-05592
14) Benny & Joon - 310-690-420-2
15) Beverly Hills Cop - 310-690-313-2
16) BEVERLY HILLS COP II - 31069-03282
17) BILL & TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY - 31069-05052
18) Black Rain - 310-690-315-2
19) Black Stallion - 310-690-413-2
20) Bon Jovi: Keep the Faith - 310-690-294-2
21) BRADY BUNCH MOVIE - 31069-03582
22) Bryan Adams: Waking Up the Neighbours - 310-690-288-2
23) Bull Durham - 310-690-501-2
24) Carrie - 310-690-426-2
25) Chinatown -
26) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 310-690-410-2
27) CHRONICLES OF NARNIA (SET OF 4) -
28) Clear & Present Danger - 310-690-338-2
29) CLUELESS - 31069-03592
30) COMING TO AMERICA - 31069-03292
31) Coneheads - 310-690-320-2
32) CONGO - 31069-03562
33) CROCODILE DUNDEE - 31069-03552
34) CRYING GAME - 31069-05552
35) Dances With Wolves - 310-690-502-2
36) Diamonds are Forever - 310-690-421-2
37) Dirty Dancing -
38) Dr. No - 310-690-404-2
39) Eric Clapton: The Cream of Clapton - 310-690-292-2
40) FATAL ATTRACTION - 31069-03032
41) The Firm - 310-690-308-2 DV
42) FIRST BLOOD - 31069-05562
43) A Fish Called Wanda - 310-690-405-2
44) For Your Eyes Only - 310-690-419-2
45) Forrest Gump - 310-690-339-2
46) Four Weddings and a Funeral - 310-690-212-2
47) From Russia With Love - 310-690-403-2
48) GHOST - 31069-03222
49) Goldfinger - 310-690-407-2
50) Golf My Way (5 discs) - 310-690-048-2
51) The Hunt for Red October - 310-690-302-2
57) INCIDENT AT ROSWELL -
58) Indecent Proposal - 310-690-316-2
59) KALIFORNIA - 31069-02382
60) LA Story -
60) Last of the Mohicans -
61) Live and Let Die - 310-690-417-2
62) Married to the Mob - 310-690-503-2
63) Metropolis -
64) Mississippi Burning - 310-690-510-2
65) Moonraker - 310-690-411-2
67) Moonstruck - 310-690-401-2
68) The Naked Gun - 310-690-323-2
69) The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear - 310-690-312-2
70) The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult - 310-690-336-2
71) THE NAVIGATOR -
72) NFL's 100 Greatest Touchdowns - 310-690-053-2
73) NOBODY'S FOOL - 31069-03422
74) CDI - 310-690-416-2
75) Of Mice and Men - 310-690-423-2
76) On Golden Pond -
77) Overboard - 310-690-424-2
78) Patriot Games - 310-690-314-2
79) Pete Townshend: Live - 310-690-054-2
80) Peter Gabriel: All About Us - 310-690-148-2
81) The Pink Panther - 310-690-427-2
82) Planes, Trains and Automobiles - 310-690-317-2 DV
83) Posse - 310-690-254-2 DV
84) PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT - 31069-06392
85) Quigley Down Under - 310-690-418-2
86) Raging Bull - 310-690-402-2
87) Rain Man - 310-690-408-2
88) RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART 2 - 31069-05572
89) RAMBO 3 - 31069-05582
90) Red Heat -
91) RESERVOIR DOGS - 31069-05542
92) Road House - 310-690-428-2
93) Robocop - 310-690-506-2
94) Robocop 2 - 310-690-507-2
95) ROBOCOP 3 - 31069-05082
96) Rocky - 310-690-412-2
97) The Secret of NIMH - 310-690-406-2
98) Silence of the Lambs - 310-690-509-2
99) Sliver - 310-690-309-2
100) Star Trek: The Motion Picture - 310-690-333-2
101) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - 310-690-310-2
102) Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - 310-690-334-2
103) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - 310-690-311-2
104) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier - 310-690-337-2
105) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - 310-690-304-2
106) STAR TREK GENERATIONS - 31069-03402
107) Sting: Ten Summoner's Tales - 310-690-287-2
108) Tennis Our Way (3 discs) - 310-690-052-2 DV
109) TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY - 31069-05532
110) TERMS OF ENDEARMENT - 31069-03512
111) Thelma and Louise - 310-690-414-2
112) Thunderball - 310-690-312-2
113) The Three Tenors - 310-690-164-2
114) Top Gun - 310-690-301-2 DV
115) TOTAL RECALL - 31069-05512
116) U2: RATTLE & HUM - 31069-03442
117) The Untouchables -
118) A View to a Kill - 310-690-409-2
119) Wayne's World - 310-690-318-2 DV
120) Wayne's World 2 - 310-690-332-2
121) Webber: The Premiere Collection - 310-690-297-2 DV
122) White Christmas - 310-690-306-2 DV
123) X-Men: Night of the Sentinels - 310-690-149-2
124) You Only Live Twice - 310-690-415-2


UK

A Fish Called Wanda
A View to a Kill
Addams Family Values
Airplane
Alive
An Officer and a Gentleman
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Baby Boom
Benny and Joon
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop II
Beverly Hills Cop III
Black Rain
Blue Steel
Buster
Carrie
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Clear and Present Danger
Coming to America
Congo
Crocodile Dundee 2
Dead Again
Diamonds are forever
Dr No
Drop Zone
Fatal Attraction
Flashdance
For your eyes only
Forrest Gump
From Russia with Love
FX: Murder by Illusion
FX 2
Ghost
Goldfinger
Indecent Proposal
Intersection
IQ
Lassie
Live and let die
Misery
Moonraker
Moonstruck
Ninja Scroll
Octo*****
Of Mice and Men
Overboard
Patriot Games
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Princess Bride
Quigley down under
Raging Bull
Rain Man
Roadhouse
Rocky
Scrooged
Sliver
Star Trek - The Motion Picture
Star Trek 2 - The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek 3 - The search for Spock
Star Trek 4 - The Voyage Home
Star Trek 5 - The Final Frontier
Star Trek 6 - The undiscovered Country
Star Trek 7 - Generations
Terminator
Terms of Endearment
The Accused
The Black Stallion
The Brady Bunch
The Firm
The Hunt for Red October
The Lawnmower man
The Naked Gun
The Naked Gun 2 1/5
The Naked Gun 33 1/3
The Pink Panther
The Princess Bride
The Secret of Nimh
The Untouchables
Thelma and Louise
Thumbelina
Thunderball
Top Gun
Wayne's World
Wayne's World 2
Weekend at Bernie¹s
Witness
You only Live Twice
Young Guns
U2 Rattle and Hum




I have always been fascinated by the different home video formats and I have a couple of these original Video CD's but they are hard to find amidst the sea of asian titles where the format was more successful.



Anyways I just thought I would share this with anyone that might be interested. This is NOT my website I just found it after like forever as far as I can find this is the only website that I have seen with a list of titles released in the US/UK markets everything else is Japan, China or Korea from what I can tell.

So if this is in the wrong place feel free to move it and have fun discussing this.


As far as I can tell Philips released movies on two formats around the same time, the first was called CDi Digital Video which only played back on their CDi Machines, and then they switched to Video CD after they release an addon that let CDi machines read them.




I have been compiling my own lists of movies released on different, obscure formats for a while now so far I have started on Super VHS, Video8 and Betamax but this is a breakthrough for me in my quest to catalog the titles released during the brief period VCD was available in the US. It looks like they stopped making them right before they released the first DVD players. I always wondered why so many US DVD players were VCD compatible in the early days and this could help explain some of that.


As far as I can tell there were other video game consoles that could also play these discs, they were the 3DO, CDi and the first Playstation all required and adaptor and the Playstation only had the adaptor sold in Japan because by the time Playstation came to the US VCD was already fading in popularity.


I can't find ANYTHING on stand alone players that could play VCD from this early time period just mostly stuff on early DVD players that could and rumors of Laser Disc players that could also have been compatible.


I know this is not anything most people will be into but I have always been into all home video formats, especially the early disc based ones.



anyways if ANYONE has further information or would just like to discuss these topics I would love to find more info on this stuff.



If anyone has a list or knows of a website that hosts a list of movies released on Beta, Video8 or Super VHS those would also be greatly appreciated I would love to finish those lists I have a list of Super VHS movies I compiled and posted to my blog but I never got very far I think I only dug up like 50 titles or so.



OR if anyone here is aware of a website or forum that is more appropriate for this sort of discussion they could point me to that would be greatly appreciated too.

[segagamer12]

I know this is incomplete the website I found this on even states that they excluded all discs that were not made by Philips so that leads me to believe there are others out there. I know this is old stuff but isn't there anyone else out there that is even the slightest bit interested in these sorts of things?

[OrlandoEastwood]

I don't believe standalone players were made for sale in the U.S. I believe there might have been some in England, but I am not 100% on that. DVD came in so fast that it killed any possible ground for VCD to cover here in the states.

As for VCD titles in the U.S, I know there was one made for Godzilla Vs Megalon, but that's because that title was thought to be public domain. I've seen it pop up here and there on eBay throughout the years but I've never snagged it.

And we all know that this format thrives in Asia. I've gotten a few Hong Kong VCDs of the newer Godzilla films throughout the years as well as a few VCDs that were from Thailand of exclusive releases of newer 20th Century Fox films. These would be out within a month of their theatrical release; I got AVP:R; 28 Weeks Later; and Babylon AD to name a few. These releases however were cropped to 4:3 and have English audio with burned in Thai subtitles.

[EricJ]

Apart from the Criterion "Hard Day's Night" on CD-Rom (my first experience with proto-DVD ), and a few other minor-studio attempts by cheap US anime and public-domain companies to ride the new CD-Rom digital-video business before DVD moved in, don't think I'd ever heard of VCD's before '99. We'd heard they were coming, but we just assumed we'd be playing them on our computers.
After '99, of course, that was when we Lucas fans all went out and tried to seek out the imported Australian (legitimate) VCD collection of Phantom Menace and Original Trilogy as a rebellious stunt, because we all knew George Lucas hated DVD. (Why else would he release them overseas on VCD, but not on DVD in the US? )

Searching them out was how I first discovered the legit and bootleg industry in HK and the Philippines.
Apart from the Lucas and a few rare animes, didn't bother much with them except in emergencies. Later, of course, Phantom Menace did come out on DVD, and that was where I first noticed....just how much VCD's PQ looked like absolute crap on a regular player.

[segagamer12]

I know there were stand alone players in the US starting in 1993, the first were the CD-i and 3DO game consoles and a few players were made by Philips and Sony during that time, they moved away by 1996 but they did exist I know because I had a friend who had one back then and I have tons of magazine articles on them from before DVD. It was very short lives that is what makes finding legit info on them so damn difficult because once they died in the US and took off in Asia that was it all the old info gets buried underneath the newer info.


I don't have any exact models thought but I read that there were players made by Sony and Philips the two who designed the format. I was just hoping that posting this would stir someone up who might also have an interest and maybe more info. It is turning into an obsession mostly because like I said all the info is buried and google is not friendly to me.

Besides that website all I have as proof is a couple of old magazines from the mid 90's that talked about the new format, and introduced the new players coming from "philips and Sony" according to the article. The also mentioned that CD-i and "other stand alone units" in the articles. I don't have any way of scanning them though but I can keep looking for other info from that time.


I know once DVD came out it killed VCD here pretty quickly and if not for the popularity in Asia they would be a thing of the past.



There was also one more format that only played on CD-i called CD-i DV which was replaced by VCD a year after coming out. I don't have a ton of details on that either but those could only be played on actual CD-i hardware OR a PC that had a CD-i adaptor and a CD-i compatible CD ROM. Those were rare and discontinued early on. I did have one though it was my first CD ROM ever. They would play regular CD ROM on a computer but were required to play CD-I titles on a PC. They only made them in two models, and only for a couple of years before CD-i fizzled out as a contender in the CD ROM wars that also included other formats not often talked about.


I also am aware of Movie CD I had a couple of those but I think they were exclusive to PC and were only compatible with Windows Media Player and if I remember correctly they were exclusively by Warner.



Aside from that the only other CD based formats I have information on is the SVCD which was not available in the US ever. At least no commercially pressed discs were made. But I do know that pre-recorded discs were pressed on VCD and CD-i DV from early 1994 to Summer of 1996 and stopped just before DVD launched because the companies knew DVD would be superior and VCD was just to them a stop gap till DVD came along anyways.

It is always nice to have other people to talk to about this stuff but since the info is so you know unreliable and most people who were around then either didn't follow them or don't remember them because they were not talked about that much.


There was also CD Video but those were compatible with laserdisc they were different. I actually have a CD Video player but it will not play VCD. I know they work on computers but they were not originally compatible with Windows unless you had a special adapter or a video card that could decode the data. After DVD came along it became easier for PCs to decode them because the DVD is an extension of the VCD format and a lot of DVD players were compatible with the discs also.


Anyways I knew this was not likely the best forum for this but I was hoping someone on here maybe visits other websites that might be
more appropriate that I could check out.



I will tell you what though finding information on what movies were sold on VCD during that time was no where near as big as a pain as finding the US list of titles sold on S VHS that was a pain in the ass. All I have is a couple of mail order catalogs and some magazine articles from the late 80s that talk about them. Apparently those were ONLY available mail order OR if you bought certain players you could get movies sent to you direct from the studios kind of like what HD-DVD and Blu Ray did during the format war. I only have a list of like 50 movies that ever did get released in the US on SVHS though it was a very short lived format.


I am also looking for data on the movies that were made on Video8 but again info on that is hard to find. But those are tape formats and I don't expect too many people here to be friendly to an old video tape format.