Please rate the veer zaara dvd.
Mine:
Video:0/5
Music:4/5

I give the DVD the following rating.

Video: 2 1/2 close out of 5
Audio: 4/5

Now I explain my rating!!

Video: I didn't have the pleasure of seeing people too streched because 16:9 TV corrects the problem. I found that YRF used a clean source to make the DVD. Colors very sharp on the DVD with a good amount of detail. Where the DVD video gets points off is do to all the flickering. It was the most annoying thing to see Preety, SRK, or Rani with there image flickering until the camera zoomed in on the them, as well as all the other things.

I found the flickering problem (if thats what is called) to be one of the biggest flaws in the authoring of this DVD by YRF.

The second flaw is the fact that the DVD was authored in PAL and converted to NTSC. For the life of me I don't understand why Indian DVD authors refuse to make separate PAL and NTSC DVDs.

The third flaw is that the DVD Video is not progressive, but my DVD player converts any non progressive DVD video and outputs a progressive video. (I was too scared to watchthe DVD in interlaced mode).

Audio: The audio got a 4 out 5 because for the most part nothing comes out of the rear speakers.

so then there is my review!!

All PC DVD playback is displayed on a compulsary Progressive Monitor (99.9% of PC monitors are progressive). So any signal coming from timbaktu or whatever neccessarily has to be converted to Progressive. How refined this conversion is, it's another thing.

Are you viewing the original 24 film frames at 720x480 resolution 60 times per second or a 720x480 picture made from 720x240 resolution, displayed 60 times per sec?? Also note that 720x240 res of (this) DVD fields itself has already been derived by mixing up (field averaged) various PAL fields, left to be averaged out by our eyes. You can never obtain the original film frames from a field averaged DVD, no matter how expensive de-interlacer you use.

Had they kept each PAL field distinct, repeating every 5th field into 6th, then yes original film frames can be recreated (expensive de-interlacers).

On the other hand if it was a PAL DVD from a PAL telecine, original film frames are available by default.

Also, if it was a NTSC DVD from a NTSC telecine, whether it has Progressive flags or a repeated every 4th field, any cheap de-interlacer can recreate the original film frames.

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