You can turn them off with a hacked
player. A hacked player is a must for a videophile.
I compared about 30 minutes of the
two editions. I can not switch instantly due to my HW set up and one version is correctly squeezed
and the other not (which I can decide) so the comparison is not so easy. Also, my PAL is not well calibrated since I watch it almost never. Nonetheless it's obvious that the French PAL version is superior:
- not progressive but 50 fields per second and no field averaging or extra fields
- colors are better
- less noisy/grainy
- better compressed
- maybe sharper too
We are talking decent DEI quality
without DNR. The sharpness of top
DEI or Hollywood is not there, though.
Both DVDs can't hold a candle to
the 35mm print I have seen. Only
the best HD I have looks this good.
Devdas is waiting for a top 1080p
transfer. Then we'll see wicked
things on the home screen.

I never knew you could do that, although I've never needed to before...ok after messing around with my harman kardon if you set the sub language to french they dont appear when watching with the hindi track on! except for some reason durring songs........

ok now the dvd has no subtitles in french.......mmm still a disapointing pixalated dvd, dhola re dhola is pretty dull and over red....chand jesey larki is on the dvd.......it's better then the eros versions for sure as they were pixelated to hell........fairly grainy image in places too as Mhafner said.........overall......still better then the eros version but not the version we all were waiting for and wanting!

I thought in PAL DVDs two fields are derived from each frame, hence 50 fields per second or 25 frames per second? Is a flag necessary on PAL DVDs to be recognized as progressive?

What I meant is that if I step a
progressive NTSC DVD I step 24 times and the second counter moves one. Here I step 50 times (I still
get fields) till the second is used up. It behaves like pseudo progressive NTSC (as we call it here) but it has no pulldown and no motion artifacts.

DVD is in PAL, so there can be no 2-3 pull down, nor it is required to get the original film frames back, in the case of PAL.
Worth checking if R2 PAL Asoka too has similar encoding (50 steps instead of 25 per sec). I'll check tonite (if no one has done that by then), if ASOKA has 25 or 50 steps. ASOKA gave no combing in Force weave mode in Power DVD, impplying that the original film frames are successfully weaved back.

BTW, I do have one R1 DVD made in UK (Indian music video; crap though), that goes thru 50 steps in 1 sec. I wonder what that is?? NTSC?? PAL?? or ??.

Rana

I don't understand it. I got the Eros-version too, but there's no "Woh chaand jaisi ladki" on it?

I have an AKAI DVPS-760 player. Is there some hack to disable the french subtitles on the hindi soundtrack?

I also noticed some jagged edges on diagonal objects. Like in the scene where Aishwarya is walking down the stairs to meet a visior at her in-laws house. If I set the mode to FILM, these jagged edges almost go away. But in any other mode like SMART, AUTO etc, they very
noticeable.

Does anyone has the song "Woh chaand jaisi ladki" in his or her Eros-version of DEVDAS?!?!

Thank you! I thought I was getting crazy or somethin'!

Asoka is 25fps!

So, there is a GOD after all.

You must be new to Indian DVDs

God-damn-it-to-bullshit-to-hell-yah!

I dont go for all that 2in1s and pirates. but i would definitely want to get a hold of pirate copy of this version of Devdas. Just from the shots, it is so much brighter than Eros.

But definitely not worth $50.