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> SVCD provided a near indistinguishable quality difference with DVDs when using most CRT TVs

From what I remember, SVCD uses roughly the same MPEG-2 video compression as DVD-Video, but with a much lower maximum bit rate. Even with a movie split onto two CDs, the bitrate was still less than half the bitrate of a professionally mastered DVD. I always found the quality of SVCDs to be noticeably poor.



On an high end LCD monitor the diffrence was very visible but on an average CRT TV in didn't make a huge difference.




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