What about the film? Is it any good?

haven't wayched yet! may be at least like JUDWA!

Screen shots soon kind courtesy of Arsh, he's sending them to me this very minute. From first glance, it looks DEI have gone back to high quality transfers like Ek Rishtaa and previous DVDs. Abhay and YDA were from poorer transfers and hopefully we wont get any of them anymore. That’s the good thing, bad thing is the video squash problem is still there!

Ali

Ali



Edited By ali on Feb. 27 2002 at 14:12

Sound is good preet agreesive dd 5.1 but I liked ASOKA DD 5.1 better, was better remixed and cleaner, if u gibve asoka 9/10, tis wiil go for 7-8/10 imo!
Man! sush sizzles in teri choodi, but they did not give us remix, she looks very cute with shorter hair! Eid mubarak is very good too! diya..neds a not of work! salman khan..chote bhaii! seems ok!

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Ali

Few observations from the screen shots;

- splice marks are noticeable
- video is squashed, remember the mock shots here, well that’s exactly what DEI have done - AGAIN! :doze:

...other than that and the unskippable ads mentioned my darius25 seems like a decent DVD. I'm personally going to wait for the second DEI release – there’s no hope of fixing the squashed video problem from DEI ( ) but at least get some extras and even better sound than this DD5.1.

Again thanks to Arsh for the screen shots.

Ali

Hi Ali,
Could please check it again??

Using the screen-shot of round light/ sun & tent, I don't see any measureable squash (My computer monitor is calibrated for graphics). Printing that screen-cap shows the same thing.

Thanks.

Rana



Edited By rana on Feb. 27 2002 at 17:15

First of all don’t assume the sun scene represents a perfect circle – there’s no way of telling how the scene is originally shot just by looking it. Compare these two shots;





Top picture is how it is on the DEI DVD, bottom is resized and reframed by with the splice marks covered. Which looks natural? I’ll give it the squashed video problem isn't as evident on this as the margin difference is less on this DVD compared to say Nasik or Kuddaar – but still it is slightly squashed.

Ali

As presented the aspect ratio on the DEI DVD is close to 2.40:1.

Roughly the actually ‘proper’ ratio should be ~2.25:1 when properly framed with the splice properly matted - without covering the splice marks AR is close to 2.30:1 when corrected.

Ali

No artifacts? That would be the first DEI DVD without
noise reduction artifacts. I bet there are as before.
Michel Hafner

Indeed they are. Arsh did send me loads more screen shots that showed evidence of noise reduction - here two of them;





Ali

what about the DTS part? Is it truely a DTS disc and how's the quality?

And Ali, I think the dvd might be a little squashed but you might have stretched it vertically a little too much... h:

Here's what I think...







Edited By congress on Feb. 28 2002 at 16:14

This DVD is not in DTS, only DD5.1. DEI are said to release DTS version in about 4 weeks time.



Hmmm could be, but mine still looks better :p

Ali

You are right Ali.

I wonder why DEI hasn't been able to fix this simple but annouing bug??

MAY BE, DEI moitors the picture with 640 x 480 resolution, where as, DVD standard is 720 x 480 ?? Does this make any sense??

Rana