rana wrote:
sursubbu, despite your caution, I picked up a few Hindi Blu Ray discs. So far just saw one disc and was shocked to see the recording.
Blu Ray Player shows the following info:
1080 24P
video @ over 35 Mbps
Now, the running picture, looks fine (I don't know what's expected) but hit the pause button or frame advance and you get fuzzy picture indicating Field Averaging.
If Field Averaging, what's the point of P24 (Progressive recording) ??
It appears that even if the transfer was mastered in High Def, it sure was not done on 24 film frames to 24 video frames. High Def or Standard Def master could have been any of the other Frame Rate Formats, like 25, 50, 29.97, 59.94 etc and then converted to 24P, using Field Averaging. WHY ??
(I suspect standard format for India would be 25, 50, then why not give us 1080 P25 or 1080 P50, whatever was the original conversion)
(Give me standard Def Direct Film to NTSC or PAL Progressive DVD instead)
My Bad, the first BR disc that I opened was the worst of them all. But, out of 3 other BRs that I picked up, 2 were Progressive, or at least they seem to be. The third disc gives somewhat fuzzy freeze frames so can't say if it's field averaged or just plain bad encoding. But, the first one that I commented on above, most likely is 25/50 to 24 converted using field averaging.
Surprisingly, the BRs with fuzzy freeze frames is encoded at 35 or higher MBPS and the BRs with sharper freeze frames are around 20 MBPS. Another reason to indicate high bit rate used to overcome faulty process of 25 to 24 field averaged conversion.
BTW, one of the BRs (better one) stated to have been mastered using 4K process, a Hindi first, according to the producer's statement.