[versions] VCD haul

[Bigrob]

managed to bag a load of VCD's off Freecycle today as I said in the shoutbox on the front page.

Below is a list of them and authenticity of them. I'll go through them one by one and say if it's a screener, cam or legit VCD over the week or so. Only listing them in case of the framing (open matte) or if the versions on the disc differ in anyway. Sometime CAM jobs from the cinema can reveal any cuts that were made for home video versions.

If anyone would like to see them, leave a message below and I'll back them up to my Googledrive and share the link

Official Release:
Daylight
Volcano
The Full Monty

Possible Official Release:
Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie

Bootlegs - Video source to be confirmed:
The Thin Red Line
Payback
The Parent Trap
Rounders
Small Soldiers
Lethal Weapon 4
A Perfect Murder
Jack Frost (Michael Keaton)
Men In Black
Practical Magic
Antz
Shakespeare in Love
As Good as it Gets
Virus
Lost in Space - CAM
Deep Impact
Soldier - VHS screener (fullscreen)
Godzilla (1998)
Mission Impossible 2 - CAM / Telesync with Chinese Subtitles
Dr Dolittle
A Bug's Life
Great Expectations
Message in a Bottle
Patch Adams
Titanic
Armageddon - Source VHS screener

[spoRv]

Nice finding!

Curious to see Godzilla.

[roman1990]

Curious about your Armageddon, Godzilla and Lost in Space. If memory serves me right they should be timecoded.

[Bigrob]

Curious about your Armageddon, Godzilla and Lost in Space. If memory serves me right they should be timecoded.

Lost in Space is a CAM job so 100% bootleg
Armageddon is not timecoded

[MrBrown]

Are they already ripped? Or do you need to rip them? VCDs might get problematic to be ripped. Doesnt seem like a copy protection, more like CDs are giving up.
I have serious problems with the T2 Discs. Even if they look pristine. One of my drives can read the first disc effordless, but fail to make a copy of the 2nd Disc, while other drives jnot even get the first disc copied.
Even if they play fine, there seem to be problems getting all the bits.

[HippieDalek]

Nice haul! I barely have any VCDs but I always found them somewhat fascinating back in the day. It's easy to write them off as awful but back then it was amazing to be able to watch a film (in full VHS quality!) on your crumby CRT PC monitor. Certainly a lot better than Real Player!

[Bigrob]

Checked Godzilla. Not quite sure to be honest. Looks like a telecine but with Chinese subtitles. Opening credits are letterboxed and then immediately goes to fullscreen afterwards. Definitely not a cam job

[PDB]

How does Payback look? Got the blue tint?

[nickdiba]

I would love to see the three original ones: Daylight, Volcano and The Full Monty. Thank you!

[deleted user]

Armageddon, Godzilla, Mission Impossible 2 would be interesting to see to me.