despite, it was a beautiful transfer, it couldn't have looked better!

I think u can fix the squish lol

IT DID NOT!

I was pointing out contineously about DEI's anamorphic squashed picture problem, specially when some on zulm.net were claiming that there was no squashing problem in DEI anamorphic DVDs. Starting from 'Alibaba and 40 Chor' and Jigar, DEI anamorphic DVDs did not have squashed picture problem any more.

Ranac

Correct! no squish problems! PQ i don't like, over kill on DNR and laughable SFX re open sesame door and that annoying waterfall!

BEi screenshots

Whatever, looks better than SHEMAROO, IMHO



I do see JAGGIES in this shot? look along LEAVES EDGES, so might be PSEUDO PROG, but still good looking transfer.

How is overall print Shuman!! I hope it has not beed EDITED for BEST PQ!

Look along EDGES of ZEENAT AMAN's FACE!

SEEMS like Same telecine used, colors were readjusted and anamorphically enahance.

Resolved.

BEI Sohni Mahiwal is not the same transfer as Shemaroo (May be same Telecine). Shemaroo is letterboxed, BEI is anamorphic.

Still wishfull hoping BEI transfer to be Progressive?? At least, from the shots posted, I don't see any indication of Field Averaging.

Rana

I TOO said!! ""SAME TELECINE"", I did not say SAME TRANSFER rana!!

WELL, if AYANGRAN PROG could be CRAP, then there is a NEW STANDARD for PROG GONE CRAP from INDIAN/TAMIL DVDS!

Looks about the same as Ali Baba Aur 40 Chor.

I dont think so, Dragun! But it might be( it will be good or same, I loved CHALIS CHOR, and SM because of same LANDSCAPE did deserve the same)






But ALI BABA IMAGE is NOT FULL SIZE? But once I spin both back to back in my DCDI CHANGER! then it will become obvious!!

Zeenat Aman acting with father/son Dharmendra and Sunny Deol. Is Sohni Mahiwal a good movie?

same transfer from shemaroo but was re-formatted and color adjusted by BEI

Same transfer or 'not same transfer' depends on how we define 'same transfer'.

It's same transfer as Shemaroo only, as far as source, i.e. telecine, is concerned.
The two versions have different colours implying different video processing after the telecine. Moreover, Shemaroo is letterboxed and BEI is Anamorohic. Still no indication whether BEI one is Progressive or not, where as, Shemaroo one is Interlaced. No idea of Audio differences or bit rates, implying the main DVD characteristic 'AUTHORING'. AUTHORING certainly is different.

Arsh:
Present screen caps from BEI SM look far inferior to BEI's Alibaba 40 Chor. But this could be due to image processing (data compression/ jpeg format etc)?? For fair comparison both BEI Alibaba 40 Chor and Sohni Mahiwal need to be compared side by side using same equipment set up. It will be interesting to include Shemaroo SM in the same comparison too. Arsh, thanks for volunteering.

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BTW, we started comparing Sohni Mahiwal to Alibaba 40 Chor. I didn't realize that both are Umesh Mehra films. Not only that, both are Indo-Soviet co-productions, and both had Dharmender and Zeenat Aman.

So what are you saying, that BEI took the Shemaroo DVD and made a fake 16:9 transfer from it? How do you know?