Video CD discs are a special kind of CD-ROM/XA bridge disc that allow you to play feature films and music videos on a dedicated Video CD player or on a CD-i player equipped with a Digital Video cartridge. A computer equipped with the appropriate hardware and software could also play Video CD discs. The Video CD standard is supported by Philips, JVC, Sony, and Matsushita. It is based on the Karaoke-CD standard and, thus, features the ability to play full-screen, full-motion video with CD-quality audio, using the MPEG-1 compression standard.

Video CD is a standard and other manufacturers plan on producing dedicated Video CD players or on adding video CD capability to their CD-based devices.