Godfather II at 200 minutes was on 2 discs, but Malcolm X at the same running time was on one dual layer disc, so when we get to the 3 hour mark things could go either way. A typical Indian 2.5 hour film should fit comfortably on 2 layers, correct? Where it might get tricky is with Ayngaran DVDs, which all have DD and DTS these days. The bitrate on those usually doesn't go above 5mbps.

Sknath, have you seen any of the progressive Ayngaran titles?

Why? they suck!!

Per advise of Sunny looked at JOOT, it is GRAINED TOO MUCH again..

Dragun.. pasand apni apni.. I will prefer a grainy Progressive dvd rather than a "clean"interlaced DVD (whatever that may mean).

I am not surprised by Godfather II. Refer to my examples of 10 Commandments (Paramount) and Harry POtter (Warner brothers) ..

Paramount, generally has a tendency to use very high bit-rates for encoding their video.

I would like to clarify one fact which everyone refers to "PIXELLATION"...

That term is infact a misnomer. What it actually means is that you see "BLOCKING artifacts"... This is an inherent problem with DCT (discrete cosine transform) based image compression algorithms. MPEG2 also uses DCT-based transforms for encoding video.
These artifacts can also occur if you do not allocate sufficient bits for motion-compensated residual errors.

Have U SEEN??? BOYS PROG?????