Got the BD over the weekend - here's a summary and screenshots. Apologies if the page takes too long to load due to screenshots!

Title: Don
Year: 2006
BD Release: 2010
IMDB Rating: 6.9
Category: Action | Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Distributor: Rapid Eye Movies
Authoring House: Rapid Eye Movies
Region Coding: B
MRP: EUR 16.99
Media: 50GB BD
Running Time: 2hrs 48min.
Chapters: 21
Video:
2.35:1, HD 1080/24p MPEG4-AVC
Peak Bitrate
Audio:
German - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Hindi - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles: <-- Not 2.35:1 Screen Friendly
1/1 German
Note: Forced Subs during songs - These are not burnt-in.

Special Features: All in SD
Making Of
Deleted Scenes
Outtakes
TV Promos
Clap Track
Movie Trailer
Other Trailers - Dhoom2, Jodhaa Akbar, Kites, Om Shanti Om

Screenshots

That is wierd to say the least, if anything one would think the subtitles might have been forced during the movie. Although, forcing subtitles in songs or otherwise is simply retarded.

How about the audio/video quality? How does it compare to the T-Series blu-ray?

This is more grain on this Blu-ray video then there is of Shahrukh Khan

+1

The SS looks bit soft and seems to have a wrong hue.

The forced subs are annoying. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to play this movie on my BD player. I have a Region A BD Player and this BD is locked to Region B. I was hoping they'd screw up the region locking like they did with K3G. I will need to rip this BD put it on a media player and watch it. I haven't watched the T-Series BD yet, so I can't really comment.

the forced subs are not unusual. The German BD of Jodhaa Akbar, which otherwise looks to be the same as the french BD, has forced subs during songs too.

also those screenshots look reasonably good to me, grain presence is welcome and detail levels seem decent.

What matters is how much difference does it make to the T Series BD. I am all in to double dip if at all it looks any different which I highly doubt based on SS. There was though a significant difference between REM DVD and Tseries DVD but BDs are looking 99 % identical meaning they would have used the same source.

Is there a way to remove forced subs if theya re not burt-in without using PC drive and copying?

I am guessing they do it because songs cannot be german Dubbed? As i recall even K3G REM has the same feature. for german audience that makes sense but my concern is when we are listening to Hindi Audio, REM could have got rid of forced subs.

don is one of the most grainiest movie ive ever seen.....even its dvd was full of excessive grains.....i dont know maybe the cameras used are responsible or what.....but in some scenes grains were excessive.....!!

Sorry for the confusion guys. The German subs are forced during songs when you are listening to the German (dubbed) audio.

Haa.. now that makes sense. Aise hi, 'khali peeli' stress le rahe the hum.

PS: I still feel it's wrong to "force" the sub-titles. Being on by default, I understand, but not the part of not having the option to turn them off.

sanjay,

In europe, at least for english films, it's some sort of rights issue. Many French BDs have forced subs because local studios have the home video rights in France but overseas they're held by Warner, Universal etc.

It is mighty annoying but seems to be prevalent in the Europe BD market.