VCD

Developed by Royal Philips, JVC, Sony Corporation and Panasonic (formerly Matsushita) as defined in the "Video CD Specification" first published in 1993, and built upon the CD BridgeCompact Disc Bridge format. The format was extended from the Karaoke CDKaraoke Compact Disc format ('Version 1.0') from 1992, thus the first Video CD specification in 1993 was named 'Version 1.1'. A second edition ('Version 2.0') was published in July 1994, and later revised in April 1995. The VCD format relies on MPEG-1 video compression.