VCI

21 films on Best Blurays

Based in United StatesFounded 1976vcientertainment.com ↗

Bill Blair founded Video Communications, Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1976, making it one of the oldest surviving US home-video companies. Its catalogue concentrates on older, often rare titles: Westerns, serials, film noir, horror and silents. Recent Blu-rays are billed as new 2K or 4K scans of the best surviving negatives or prints, and releases now go out through MVD Entertainment Group.

Aliases: vci

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The Little American (1917)

Directors: Cecil B. DeMille & Joseph Levering

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

3.3

Sparrows (1926)

Director: William Beaudine

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparison but the VCI Blu-ray is a newer 4K scan while the OOP Milestone Blu-ray is an HD scan

3.6

Slightly Scarlet (1930)

Directors: Louis J. Gasnier & Edwin H. Knopf

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI DVD

Hell Harbor (1930)

Director: Henry King

Best English-Friendly & Video:

AlphaVideo or VCI DVD

Tonight or Never (1931)

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

3.3

Street Scene (1931)

Director: King Vidor

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray, 4K resto

3.8

White Zombie (1932)

Director: Victor Halperin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber "raw' version or VCI replacement Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

No comparison available

See DVDBeaver for the whole fiasco but Kino Lorber's main feature was a DNR mess but it fortunately included the "raw" version. VCI initially had a bitrate < 10 Mbps but have sent out new disc with bitrate around 35 Mbps.

UCLA has a new restoration done in 2015, but no release yet

Additional Info:

Only VCI has optional subtitle and commentaries, while Kino Lorber doesn't

3.1

Rain (1932)

Director: Lewis Milestone

Best English-Friendly:

VCI Blu-ray

Best Video:

VCI Blu-ray 4K restoration

3.5

The Gay Desperado (1936)

Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

Topper (1937)

Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

Video Notes:

But really bad encoding

3.4

Topper Takes a Trip (1938)

Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

3.2

East Side Kids (1940)

Director: Robert F. Hill

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

Turnabout (1940)

Director: Hal Roach

Video format: DVD

Best Video:

VCI 2017 DVD (Hal Roach Forgotten Comedies)

3.2

Topper Returns (1941)

Director: Roy Del Ruth

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

3.3

That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

3.3

Let's Get Tough (1942)

Director: Wallace Fox

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

And Then There Were None (1945)

Director: René Clair

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI US or Filmjuwelen Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

VCI US or Filmjuwelen Blu-ray are both MP2 encoded, most likely from the same master. Judging from the size and the caps from DVDBeaver or BR for VCI or caps-a-holic for Filmjuwelen, they are probably very similar.

3.5