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.
VCI
20 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 17 in HD3 in SD3 more announced
Films where VCI's release is the pick. How picks are made
17 of 20 films match
Films where VCI's release is the pick. How picks are made
Best English-Friendly & Video:
US VCI Blu-ray or UK Second Run Blu-ray
Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
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.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Best English-Friendly & Video:
VCI Blu-ray
Video Notes:
But really bad encoding
Best English-Friendly & Video:
VCI Blu-ray
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 announced
VCI's release is announced; until it is out, the picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating
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