VCI

20 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 17 in HD3 in SD1 more announced

Based in United StatesFounded 1976vcientertainment.com (opens in a new tab)

Films where VCI's release is the pick. How picks are made

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.

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Films where VCI's release is the pick. How picks are made

17 in HD

Best video release on Blu-ray or HD streaming · by Letterboxd rating

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)

Director: Luis Buñuel

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US VCI Blu-ray or UK Second Run Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

US VCI Blu-ray or UK Second Run Blu-ray share the same 4K restoration transfer and look essentially the same see caps

Best Audio:

2001 R2 Films Sans Frontières DVD

3.8

Street Scene (1931)

Director: King Vidor

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray, 4K resto

3.8

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

D.O.A. (1949)

Director: Rudolph Maté

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Film Noir Classics Double Feature Blu-ray

3.5

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