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Yuvan
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I'm not sure if there has been an Indian dvd encoded with a DTS soundtrack..

..and judging by the majority of posts here at zulm, most of you watch Hindi & Tamil DVD's (films)..but here is something different..

Telugu "Okkadu" DVD being released by EVP is featuring DTS soundtrack along with DD5.1!

here is direct link to Okkadu DVD info..
http://www.evpdvd.com/product.asp?pID=47&cID=11

homepage:
http://www.evpdvd.com


I wasn't particularly satisfied with the DD5.1 from the dubbed films 12B & Amrutha (Kannathil Muthamitaal), but i however watched 'Santosham', and the DD5.1 improved quite a bit!

hope this Okkadu disc is goooood. music is excellent!

I preordered mine. $24.99 for Okkadu & an additional title. Free shipping! $14.99 stand alone. packed with English Subs.

Reviews of films(incase Arsh wants to order :p or rent since he seems to have access to all dvd's :tounge: ) :
Okkadu: http://idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-okkadu.html
Nee Sneham: http://idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-neesneham.html

can't wait for the end of month! w00t

will this be the first Indian DTS disc? I haven't seen any Indian movies on DTS disc (even on columbia tristar & foreign authors).
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Yuvan
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This reminds you of the experience you had when you watched Nagarjuna's Shiva when it first released.


Thats a pretty bold statement. I have yet to see the movie myself.

oh the suspense..its eating me up from inside!! :ffs:
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Pav.. EVP = Media Dimensions = Pseudo Progressive aka (semi-$hit picture quality)... So no use if the sound is in DTS.... unless the (basic) picture is encoded properly ! :( But do keep us posted abt the quality !
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Yuvan
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Pav.. EVP = Media Dimensions = Pseudo Progressive aka (semi-$hit picture quality)... So no use if the sound is in DTS.... unless the (basic) picture is encoded properly ! :( But do keep us posted abt the quality !

well, skanth, EVP is not like EROS nor DEI or Ayngaran or any other company.. They actually listen to their customers! I was reading the thread about email swapping with the head guys at Eros & their response is terrible.

reason I include DEI/BEI(?) in bad territory is because there is no way of contacting them.

guy @ crowndvd is an arse! same old argument 'how do you expect great quality dvd's when majority of the people would prefer renting bootleg vhs?' I don't see why authoring a better quality dvd, in terms of video/audio should cost more. now if they were to add extras (which would involve menu authoring costs & rights as far as interviews & 'makin of' are concerned..). Anyway, "Kushi" was released with KAD logo and Crown logo, which had vhs+ video, with sh*tty 2.0 audio. crowndvd told me that they were going to re-release it in a better fashion (which I doubt), but why hadn't they done that in the first place?

Anyway, Crowndvd's Kadhgam had excellent rich dd5.1 audio!! the video was great (as far as colors are concerned). now the question of interlaced/progressive, you can answer by renting this sucka! coz i don't have progressive tv :p movie is not bad, but not good either for a Krishna Vamsi presentation!! anyway, worth my $11 :)


i got off topic..lol..EVP..well, just email him(sudhakar), telephone him, talk to him, tell him whats eating your shorts (interlaced video)..he'll listen to you. he's improved his products without doubt. he's had problems marketing his DVD's, but with his own website up & running (only recently) he's goin to put forth better dvd's & more of em too :)

plus, this interlaced junk is better than spending $25+ watching these movies at local junk theaters (good video, bad audio) that are played on a limited basis. theaters don't even have english subs!
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Pav wrote:
sknath wrote:
Pav.. EVP = Media Dimensions = Pseudo Progressive aka (semi-$hit picture quality)... So no use if the sound is in DTS.... unless the (basic) picture is encoded properly ! :( But do keep us posted abt the quality !

well, skanth, EVP is not like EROS nor DEI or Ayngaran or any other company.. They actually listen to their customers! I was reading the thread about email swapping with the head guys at Eros & their response is terrible.

reason I include DEI/BEI(?) in bad territory is because there is no way of contacting them.

guy @ crowndvd is an arse! same old argument 'how do you expect great quality dvd's when majority of the people would prefer renting bootleg vhs?' I don't see why authoring a better quality dvd, in terms of video/audio should cost more. now if they were to add extras (which would involve menu authoring costs & rights as far as interviews & 'makin of' are concerned..). Anyway, "Kushi" was released with KAD logo and Crown logo, which had vhs+ video, with sh*tty 2.0 audio. crowndvd told me that they were going to re-release it in a better fashion (which I doubt), but why hadn't they done that in the first place?

Anyway, Crowndvd's Kadhgam had excellent rich dd5.1 audio!! the video was great (as far as colors are concerned). now the question of interlaced/progressive, you can answer by renting this sucka! coz i don't have progressive tv :p movie is not bad, but not good either for a Krishna Vamsi presentation!! anyway, worth my $11 :)


i got off topic..lol..EVP..well, just email him(sudhakar), telephone him, talk to him, tell him whats eating your shorts (interlaced video)..he'll listen to you. he's improved his products without doubt. he's had problems marketing his DVD's, but with his own website up & running (only recently) he's goin to put forth better dvd's & more of em too :)

plus, this interlaced junk is better than spending $25+ watching these movies at local junk theaters (good video, bad audio) that are played on a limited basis. theaters don't even have english subs!

Pav, once upon a time, I did initiate contact with Sudhakar.. all of a sudden he vanished from the screen and didnt show up. Last year I tried again to contact him vis-a-vis his Aradhana DVD (Hindi). He is still selling on his site the crappy interlaced version of the DVD, when there is a better progressive version available (and no it isnt a pirate !)... We discussed abt this in the Aradhana thread here on zulm, a couple of months back. Maybe Sudhakar is not interested in listening to folks like us...

Maybe you can put in a good word abt this aspect. Trust me Pav.. all he has to do is make his prints progressive and I am sure ppl (read Stingy desis... and semi-gultis like me) will happily pay whatever he charges for those DVDs...

BTW do they ship their dvds here to Canada...
I am interested in their Alluda Majaka DVD :D

(Chinnapapa kemo cheera kaasta chinna dayeno..
Peddapapa kemo paitha kaasta pedda dayeno... mmm

Sexy Saas+sexy Saali+sexy Biwi = ......(censor!).... :D
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are you sure that he is selling his old stock (aaradhana) at his site? prolly the cover is old? may be the people who perfectionists can request for the progressive/new disc, and he will ship you just that.

aaradhana, one of my fav hindi soundtracks! hows the movie?

anyway, i've enjoyed lots of classics because of him, which i otherwise wouldnt have!!
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Pav wrote:
will this be the first Indian DTS disc? I haven't seen any Indian movies on DTS disc (even on columbia tristar & foreign authors).

Pav, there have been a few Tamil DTS releases. Here are the ones that I know of off the top of my head:

Bala (Ayngaran)
April Maadhathil (Ayngaran)
Anbe Sivam (Ayngaran)
Villan (Tamilini)

Tamilini's "Digital Isai Thendral" (songs) DVDs also have DTS.
Columbia Films (a Tamil VCD maker, not Columbia Tristar) released pseudo-5.1 DTS DVDs of "Puthiya Paravai" an MGR film.

Is this the full list, Sunny?

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are you sure that he is selling his old stock (aaradhana) at his site? prolly the cover is old? may be the people who perfectionists can request for the progressive/new disc, and he will ship you just that.


The progressive versions of Aradhana, Abhimaan, Amar Prem, Prem Kahani, and probably a few other EVP Hindi DVDs are the old versions. The new versions with English subtitles are pseudo-progressive.


As long as we're on the topic of Telugu DVDs, I saw a while back that KAD released an anamorphic DVD with English subtitles and an interview with Shriya. I think the film was Nuvve Nuvve. How are the ones by SV Entertainment? The cases they use are basically folded paper, so I don't trust them.



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Yuvan
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avoid the SV(E) discs at all cost!! you'll regret you even wasted your time unwrapping them!

I know some ayngaran discs have DTS logo on them, but aren't actually encoded in DTS. the ones you've mentioned, have you heard/watched them yourself?

I too saa a Digital Isai Thenraal disc. It didn't look like a typical Anygaran case. shame this other company couldn't come up with their own titles for their song discs. doesn't get any lamer. yes, it gets lamer, SV(E)!

anyway, Nuvve Nuvve (KAD) has terrible audio, but still an improvement & sign of progress, because it's one of the better telugu discs as far as video is concerned. Nuvve Nuvve was clever for majority of the movie. I would've cut out some of the non-sense myself..but I guess they have to add some "masala" to the film. shakira song amongst couple others were terrible. two songs were good. shriya looked cute :D and tarun excelled!



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Pav wrote:
avoid the SV(E) discs at all cost!! you'll regret you even wasted your time unwrapping them!

I know some ayngaran discs have DTS logo on them, but aren't actually encoded in DTS. the ones you've mentioned, have you heard/watched them yourself?

I too saa a Digital Isai Thenraal disc. It didn't look like a typical Anygaran case. shame this other company couldn't come up with their own titles for their song discs. doesn't get any lamer. yes, it gets lamer, SV(E)!

anyway, Nuvve Nuvve (KAD) has terrible audio, but still an improvement & sign of progress, because it's one of the better telugu discs as far as video is concerned. Nuvve Nuvve was clever for majority of the movie. I would've cut out some of the non-sense myself..but I guess they have to add some "masala" to the film. shakira song amongst couple others were terrible. two songs were good. shriya looked cute :D and tarun excelled!

Why does that not surprise me about SVE?

Kandukondain Kandukondain (first release) has a DTS logo on the cover but no DTS, but Sunny Audit has reported of DTS tracks being present on Anbe Sivam, Bala, at least one Digital Isai Thendral disc, and probably the other ones as well.

How long is Okkadu? Will DD and DTS tracks for a 2.5 hour movie fit on 1 discwithout compression artifacts?
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Sknath,

For whatever it is worth, I think EVP Santosham is the best you can get from an interlaced disk. I have even compared with Ayngaran's other disks. But Santosham PQ is
Really good and pleasing. I have not observed any excessive DVNR with this disk and it has good DD5.1. But Audio is not comparable with the best works of Anyangran's.
I also preordered the first DTS Okkadu with some other movie. Not because of its DTS, but because it is a good movie and I want to see whether EVP Sudhakar keep his word on quality. As most of you know I started a thread on EVP Sudhakar a while back.


And also I recently watched the movie Kadhgam ( Crowndvd ), it had good DD5.1 audio The video was Ok not as good as Santosham but I believe it is one other good sign for Telugh DVD's.

If you guys like I can send the screen shots to ALI for the movie Kadhgam.



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Zoran009
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I have been asking, no body seems to RESPOND..Telugu film? INDRA, is up for a few NATIONALS!!

I think, it stars...Guy from ZAKHM.. andPossibly Gracy Singh???? or is it Maniya again?
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You mean Nagarjuna. The Nagarjuna, Gracy Singh movie is nothing but the 'Santosham' mentioned above. I have seen the dubbed trailers in Hindi but dont remember the title

INDRA is a chiranjeevi starrer. Biggest hit ever in telugu according to trader magazines. Supposed to have made a net profit of 35 crores. Not that great movie and has a bad DVD
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Oh!! oops!sorry for MIX UP!

Yes, Chiranjeevi/Maniya? Indra? who did that BAD DVD? Pyramid?
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I have rented the 'Kandukondain Kandukondian' disc with DTS logo on it and was sorely dissappointed that it only had DD 5.1. :bangbang:

BTW, I don't think any Indian movie watchers, who are not interested in films, home theater etc (which makes up a big friggin' majority), gonna give 2 shits if the DVD has a dvd DTS ES 6.1 track. They would rather watch their shitty coppied DVD-> vhs TAPES on their 19" GE tv with their RCA vcr (no offense). This is the main reason why Indian dvds are like this. :angry: Me on the other hand would like to see progressive encoded Indian dvds with DTS sound.
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arsh wrote:
Oh!! oops!sorry for MIX UP!

Yes, Chiranjeevi/Maniya? Indra? who did that BAD DVD? Pyramid?

arsh, indiamovies.com made/released indra dvd.
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