dubbed toku in the 80s

[Vitor]

VCD stands for Video CD.

Before DVDs, they were popular in Asian countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong and India (to name a few), but they never really took off in the Western world.

Well I was thinking that they were something similar to what Xiphias produced in the early 90's with their shitty quality Quicktime videos randomly shoehorned into a makeshift piece of computer software

And yes, I'm aware of laserdiscs. I was frankly surprised that they kept producing them well into the year 2000. They were EXTREMELY popular over in Japan, not so much here in America

Here's a nice little video about them by a Canadian bloke by the name of Zaranyzerak
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNd4E29fiY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNd4E29fiY[/ame]

 

[kuroihikari]

There was no VCD in the western world? So you guys just skipped from VHS to DVD?

I guess we do learn something new everyday.

You know those Asian movies from the 90s that are split into two files? Those are because one two-hour movie could not fit into a VCD in standard encoding and thus had to be split in two.

 

[Vitor]

There was no VCD in the western world? So you guys just skipped from VHS to DVD?

I guess we do learn something new everyday.

The closest thing we probably had was this kiddified version of DVDs called Video Now and Gameboy Advance Video carts

 

[UkiyaSeed]

A lot of these subbed sets are either HK or just plain ripped from fansubs. One of my proudest moments ever was walking into a DVD shop to find my fansub of Lion Maru G on the shelf. I even bought it.

Crap. I mean dubs. Legit licensed English dubbed VCDs of Sazer X and Justirizers. Was half asleep while typing that. Better fix it then. Speaking of dubs, I still find it weird that we have DVD releases of Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight but we don't have DVD releases of the Kamen Rider Kabuto English dub.

 

[TransformingNinja]

Crap. I mean dubs. Legit licensed English dubbed VCDs of Sazer X and Justirizers. Was half asleep while typing that. Better fix it then. Speaking of dubs, I still find it weird that we have DVD releases of Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight but we don't have DVD releases of the Kamen Rider Kabuto English dub.

The English Kabuto dub is available in a 4 disc set on Malaysian DVD. Its readily available on Ebay, I just picked a copy up. Quality is decent despite it having about 10+ episodes crammed on to each disc.

 

[UkiyaSeed]

Can you take a screencap of the English Kamen Rider Kabuto dub? Maybe it is just the Cartoon Network rip that Sandies posted years ago.

 

[Black Ranger RX]

There was no VCD in the western world? So you guys just skipped from VHS to DVD?

I guess we do learn something new everyday.

Yup!! That was at least what we did in the UK.

The English Kabuto dub is available in a 4 disc set on Malaysian DVD. Its readily available on Ebay, I just picked a copy up. Quality is decent despite it having about 10+ episodes crammed on to each disc.

It's not a bootleg is it?

 

[Bigdog]

It's not a bootleg is it?

Of course it is. Would you expect more from the licensors?

I never heard of a VCD before I began looking for Jetman , which had the dubs...... never got to see them.

 

[TransformingNinja]

Can you take a screencap of the English Kamen Rider Kabuto dub? Maybe it is just the Cartoon Network rip that Sandies posted years ago.

Its not from Cartoon Network, they appear to be taken from a master resource. I also believe it is fully licensed as it has the Malaysian Government stamp on it, which a bootleg would not receive.

 

[kamenkong]

I found a clip of the Italian tiger 7 dub on youtube here is the link to that dub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIEXZZPkzfs
they also got denjin zaboger but the only clip i can find of that is this poor far away camera recording of it while a godzilla toy watches it here is a link it for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v9V2lK0rKc&list=UUanFGk6tehAtTWE0NZbtq3w
surprisingly they got MachineMan i could not find any footage of that, they also managed to get dubs of spectreman and message from space galactic wars.
message from space galactic wars was distributed under Guerre fra Galassie
here is the link to the intro to that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWXHtsBEYmE
and that got an Italian DVD release spectreman did not get a DVD release but the italian dubbed episodes are around daliymotion
they also got ultraman hayata
there is 3 episodes on youtube
here are the links to 2 of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_tM7Uc1L4&index=13&list=UUDMwzq3A6sMWeZEA1NPcUdA

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AgCkPQ8YDg&index=11&list=UUDMwzq3A6sMWeZEA1NPcUdA

and for last they got lion maru you can find that on dailymotion here is the link to that
http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x2s6ya_dm_5204e5b375e0e_ultralion-serie-tokusatsu/1#video=x12vsbu
i honestly like the theme song to the Italian dub of lion maru its so catchy
now if memory serves me right in 2012 somebody uploaded the intro to the Italian dub of machineman and i think the name of that dub was "Machine Alien" i could be wrong i tried to find the intro but it was not on there anymore

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