First commercially available DVD ever produced in the U.S. was a Bad Movie

[claws]

Return of the Boogeyman (1994)



released in March 1997 on DVD by Simitar.

One of the worst movies in my collection but a keeper since it is also one for the history books 

[LilCerberus]

Watched this one with the sound turned off, & never got around to actually sitting through it....

Seemed a pretty bad cut & paste from the first movie (don't recall if the second one was used) & one scene from Brainwaves (1982)

[LilCerberus]

Say, wouldn't this have been around the same time they were trying to plug those ultra low-res movies on CD-ROM for your pc?

[claws]

Say, wouldn't this have been around the same time they were trying to plug those ultra low-res movies on CD-ROM for your pc?

No Idea, I didn't venture into those however, I once bought an Asian disc of Mindhunters (2004). It was an official CD-R release (not a bootleg), cropped from 2.35:1 to 1.85:1. Decent quality, but I bought it on Blu-ray a few years later.

[Trevor]

No Idea, I didn't venture into those however, I once bought an Asian disc of Mindhunters (2004). It was an official CD-R release (not a bootleg), cropped from 2.35:1 to 1.85:1. Decent quality, but I bought it on Blu-ray a few years later.

That was a really good film: directed by Renny Harlin and written by SA screenwriter Wayne Kramer.

[LilCerberus]

I have some Penguin Movie ROMs somewhere in my collection that I picked up at swap meet 20yrs ago....
Mermaids (1990)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
I'm not sure, but I think I have a copy of Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

They're pretty pixelized, use two CDs instead of one, and use .dat format, vice the .VOB format used in DVDs.....

I also have a bootleg of http://www.badmovies.org/movies/oversexrug/ which uses single disk, ultra low res .mov files.....

[ralfy]

Video CDs or VCDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_CD

[claws]

Oh wow thanks for the link. It must have been a Video CD (VCD)
now that I think about it.