If you and majority are happy with Taal, you won't get any quality from Indian DVDs. Taal doesn't make the grade for me. Firstly it is heavily cropped from top and bottm and secondly it is not Progressive. Picture quality wise, it may be OK for current TVs but you won't get the improved picture from Progressive TV-DVD combo that you would get if the DVD was Progressive like all Hollywood or DEI DVDs.
Any non-anamorphic progressive DVD will beat anamorphic DVD of Taal (interlaced) on any Progressive TV-DVD combo.

Rana

You may conclude from your experience of interlaced TV pictures that there is nothing wrong with it at all! Indeed, up to a certain size of image at typical viewing distances and viewing environments, interlaced video is more than adequate and has been enjoyed by many millions of people around the world for a very long time.
On a typical or average TV found in most living rooms, it is only with certain types of images that the most obvious artifacts of interlaced scanning reveal themselves. Such images are those that imitate the sort of graphics, menus and text formats you may take for granted on your typical PC desktop or application. However, these images are becoming more common with the advent of email and web browsing facilities offered via digital TV along with the slick design of TV program guides and other on screen displays.
Further more, if progressive scanning is to be used then it is imperative that the interlaced to progressive conversion is performed to a very high standard. Otherwise the only way presently to guarantee the preservation of vertical detail in an originally interlaced image, is to leave it interlaced.
With the exception of the finely detailed, mostly stationary onscreen displays mentioned above, the benefits of progressive scanning become more desirable, if not essential, with larger displays. For example, direct view CRT TVs over about 32inches and home theatre projection systems with images of just about any size, but typically between 5 and 10 feet wide, will benefit most of all from high quality interlaced to progressive conversion.
As you might expect, it is when we begin to enlarge the video image to many times the size it was ever designed for that its limitations start to become blatantly obvious and need to be compensated for.

http://www.progressivescan.co.uk/interl ... ages.shtml



Edited By ganti on July 24 2002 at 15:39

I'm sure you're right. But compared to any of the other Hindi DVDs I have (except Lagaan and Mission Kashmir of course), it looks light years better than anything else I own by Eros/B4U and DEI. Granted, I don't have a progressive scan setup so I'm sure if I did I would see more flaws. I didn't notice the cropping you speak of. It looked like 2.35 to me.



Yes, I'm in Indianapolis. I'm about 3 hours away from you. I would love to see your setup someday. Although, my knowledge of Indian films is somewhat limited as I only discovered them about a month ago! I would certainly be happy to have a discussion with you though.

Jeff