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shamrat
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Just wanna add my two cents to this topic. Bought the dvd for £20 yesterday. Not the greatest of storylines or acting. Most of the cast where sleep walking through the film. But the quality of the dvd isn't as bad as everybody is making out to be. Colour is just right and there's not much in the way of artifacts and dust on the print used.

Sound is alright I guess. One thing that annoyed me is that there was no inlay card & no extras. Yash Raj has really started to churn out Eros style dvds. At least a average film like MYKSH had extras to back up the film. :ffs: :bangbang: :nervous:
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ali
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Looking at the screen shots that Faddy took here;

http://www.azaadi.com/dvdreviewread.php?dvdarticle=5

..it seems that the screen shots that SnakeEye have a problem that gives it that murky, over exposed look – even the menus have this look – which suggests there’s a problem with screen shots instead of the actual video on the DVD. The screen shots on the above link is what I'd expect from something like YRF. It might not be the best DVD but doesn’t look as bad as it initially seemed from them screen shots.

shamrat wrote:
One thing that annoyed me is that there was no inlay card & no extras. Yash Raj has really started to churn out Eros style dvds. At least a average film like MYKSH had extras to back up the film. :ffs: :bangbang: :nervous:


Eros style DVD because they are using the same people to author their DVDs as Eros. People used to still excuse the bad video quality on YRF because they had the extras – not any old extras but especially made for the DVD. With these gone and YRF using the same lame old excuse of piracy for bad video quality and lack of extras :bangbang: they are no better than Eros in the Indian DVD world.

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Zoran009
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Hmmm! i thought and said so too!! Ali, earlier, that there might be a problem in advance video settings of POWER DVD 4 while capturing shots!!

With 10000 apologies ,I will disagree with FADDY's review, landing MDK, audio video wise at same level with MOHABTAEN!!
I'll sum it much inferior than MOHABTAEN, and PARSAD's latest MYKSH, as DVD is concerned! :baaa: ???
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kaindiazINC.
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I rented the disc today, and wow! Iam impressed. Not the best video around but the whole dvd package was well designed...menu and stuff. Audio was also good.The only let down is the lack of extras :( .
If you will notice the end credits of the movie, you will notice that there is a mention of whose in charge of handling dvd stuff, so Im guessing they must've done some extras for MDK dvd. The only logical reason why they didnt put it there was the fact that they had to release it earlier in order to fight piracy. It wouldnt be surprising if they re-released the dvd in a couple of months...when they're eventually gonna need money. Look what happened with KKKH and DTPH dvds. :keh:
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sknath
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Hmm no one answered this question ...is this DVD encoded interlaced or progressively ?
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Zoran009
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[. Look what happened with KKKH and DTPH dvds. ]

Hmmm! u kindaa guy? u man! If they do MDK, MYKSH anamorphic(pseudo) by YRF??? would u buy it or buy it again!?

I guess, from most answer will be A BIG! NO!!!

these are no DTPH and KKHH!! :baaa: :bangbang:

and as persay, DTPH is well worth it IMHO, but KKHH, anamorph is IFFY! call, only if u have widescreen TV and BIGGER PICTURE looks better! :baaa:
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kaindiazINC.
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as i was saying arsh ...people save ur money and wait for a version with extras in the near future. :kungfu:
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darius25
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hey guys, just saw this dvd last night.

The video was quite impressive - when compared to Eros/Spark/VS standards. It was bright, colourful and quite detailed in most scenes. My main problem was that there were some motion artifacts (ie - lines when people move), but not as much as Asoka! Shadow detail was decent, and there were no compression artifacts. The print source was clean too. Keep in mind that I was watching of 53" tv, through anamorphic squeeze so this movie would look incredible on smaller televisions. I think the quality is better than Mohabbatein and DDLJ, but probably not as good as K3G. (I haven't seen MYKSH on dvd yet.)

The sound was pretty bareable. It's not the most aggresive transfer ever (nor was it in Imax), but there were some surround effects and the bass was decent aswell. The sound mix came alive during some of the songs and trust me it's definately not pseudo 5.1.

And yes, there are no extras, which is a shame!

Overall, if you like the movie alone (and I do because I have seen it 4 times now!), then this DVD is more than efficient enough to satisfy you.

oh and the video definately didn't look as bad as those screen caps earlier on in the thread.



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punjabimunda
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I was rather impressed with this dvds picture quality. Some people that are dogging this dvd, are u sure that you guys watched the original and not some pathetic pirate?


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ali
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MDK is interlaced - ie has combing artefacts when force weaved in Power DVD – this only method I’ve ever used to find if the DVD is interlaced or progressive.

Had a chance to quickly scan through the MDK DVD and looks like a pretty good DVD. Has similar transfer to (but not quite matching) Lal Salaam, Mitr and 16 December – all these were from Prasad Digital too. Colours are vibrant although touch over done – colour bleeding coupled with edge enhancement problems. Contract likewise is good but not great. The biggest problem the is excessive noise reduction applied with equally bad compression encoding. Surprisingly the average bit rate is about 6.49Mb/sec but still ends up looking like quality of a SVCD. There are quite a few print source problems; speckles, scratches etc throughout. Much better video than MYKSH but not quite the standard of 16 December, Mitr and Lal Salaam.

Sound seems an oddity. Some surround usage but generally very flat and confined mostly to front channels. When songs or background music start the surrounds become more active.

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Naven
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Some people that are dogging this dvd, are u sure that you guys watched the original and not some pathetic pirate?


Some people who put down the DVD were probably ones who didnt even have it yet, therefore their opinion wasnt justified (Seems to be a problem with some people :rolleyes: ).

The video is good, the audio is also good, but could be a little better. The only thing this DVD needed was alot of extras that YRF usually has, looks like there is going to be a wait for a K3G double disk, and a MDK double disk. :oh:
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Zoran009
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Come on! naven, darius, u guys are totlly blindfolded after watching this film, 4-5 times already!
GIVE ME A BREAK! this SHIT is not even at PAR with MYKSH! that is second worst!

No way it gets even close to K3G , that was extremely well done, barebone dvd!
Mohabtaen, was lower than K3G esp in PQ wise, was sofetr transfer!!

I am not included EXTRAs, bonus shit in dat!
30 minutes of EXTRA shit does not make a DVD great!

LAGAAN, MK, being bare bone! are GREAT transfers! from all other PERSPECTIVES, and here, I am not comparing them HOLLYWOOD dvds donr by CT!

Just comparing, apples to apples! ??? :bangbang: :stupid: :ffs:
even 30 minutes-60 minutes extras wont be able to SALVAGE a MDK calibre of film and DVD! :baaa: :angry:
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darius25
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ali wrote:
Sound seems an oddity. Some surround usage but generally very flat and confined mostly to front channels. When songs or background music start the surrounds become more active.

Ali

Could this be because that's how the original sound mix was recorded? Remember that this is a comedy/drama with no action. Also the songs were kind of mellow/soft rock kind, with no good techno or beats like the Khallas number from Company, or the songs of Anu Malik or Himesh Reshammiya (Humraaz).

For a movie like this, the surround would only be used for directional effects (like Uday knocking on the door or someone coming in from the side). Most of the surrounds would be used for background music and the song numbers, which are appropriate. Yeah it does lack the punch of some of the better sound mixes out there, but it could have been the fault of the sound engineer of the movie, not the DVD technician.

From what I remember the sound presentation on the dvd was very similar to the sound presentation in the Imax theatre (run by a Canadian company, not Indian people). Perhaps someone else could back me up :oh:
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darius25
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no arsh, I am not blinded by the fact that i have seen this film multiple times. I saw it on the saturday of the opening weekend in Imax, and then at a local theatre on the tuesday night of the same week. Both times, the print source was very good - brightness, colours, details, everything was spot on!! When I saw this on the dvd this weekend, the presentation was almost the same quality!! I'm not saying that its better than Mission Kashmir (which is probably the best Bollywood video presentation ever), but compared to Spark/Soven/Eros/Video Sound releases, this transfer was just breathtaking!!! maybe it has more to do with set design and lightning of the production itself, but the video transfer IS more than acceptable.

as for the sound - look at my post above.

and I repeat I have not seen MYKSH dvd - so it is possible that this is an inferior product compared to that dvd and K3G. I do think that the video in this one is MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH better than DTPH, KKHH, Mohabbatein, DDLJ, and all Eros releases. I would say that the only Eros release that comes close is Pyar Ishq Aur Mohabbat.
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Naven
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Come on! naven, darius, u guys are totlly blindfolded after watching this film, 4-5 times already!
GIVE ME A BREAK! this SHIT is not even at PAR with MYKSH! that is second worst!


Seen the film alot more than 5 times now that I have the DVD. I am sorry that me and a few others dont share the same opinion as you do about this movie (actually I am not). The film was good to me, and a few others on this forum, and also alot of people in India, and the UK. The movie made lots of money despite people who made opinions without seeing the film, putting it down. TO ME, this movie is hell of alot better than MYKSH. To compare the acting of the two films, you can clearly see why Hrithik, Kareena, and Rani are some of the best stars of today.

The DVD quality is good, when people on this forum first saw the screen shots they put the DVD down, called it crap, then after seeing it, I mean actually seeing it, you see how wrong you are. Putting the movie aside, the DVD is good, the video and audio are good. Even Ali, whos opinion everyone values so much, agrees the DVD is good. Maybe the person who is blind is yourself, and you cant see past your bias views and see the DVD for what it is...... :doze:
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