Not sure bout mhn, khnh did.

-Munna

Excel Home Videos is a joke. I recently watched another DVD, 'Khamosh Pani', released by them, and it was a totally trash DVD. The sound was 'mono', although the cover quite prominently displayed 5.1 sound. To make things worse, throughout the film there is an annoying 'humm', disturbance in the background. As for the video, the less said the better. The cover states that the film is presented in 16:9. Before you go thinking that the film is presented in an anamorphic/enhanced for 16:9 format, be informed that is not the case, but rather, what they mean by "presented in 16:9' is that they have cropped (chopped) off the sides of the 2.35:1 film to a 16:9 image. The quality of the picture itself is also crap. It is a testimony to how good the actual film is that I even bothered to sit thru the entire film and bear the agony of the crappy Excel Home Videos' DVD.

PS: I wrote an email regarding the Khamosh Pani DVD and sent it to 4 different people within Excel Home Videos, but i never received any reply.

Dear Sanjay,

My sincere apologies in delay for replying to your below e-mail, would request you to give more details about you so that we can get the necessary refund or exchange done. Also request you to give me your telephone number and I would speak to you personally and explain to you on the below.

Regards,
Shabbir

As a follow up to my previous post in this matter, I did receive an email from Mr. Shabbir Kapasi:
I wrote back with my Cell phone number and within minutes of sending my email I got a call from Shabbir. He was apologetic about the 'Khamosh Pani' DVD and although he gave some flimsy excuse that there was a screw up in the production and that they had recalled the initial lot of DVDs, I still think it is quite noteworthy for him to take the trouble of replying and then calling me. Shabbir also offered to refund my purchase price or have the DVD exchanged for another title. I told him I'd rather just wait and replace it with the future corrected DVD release of Khamosh Pani. I then mentioned the forthcoming 'Parineeta' DVD release and he promised that it would be a 'World class' DVD and that it will also be the 1st Indian DVD with DTS sound. I guess we can discount the Universal release of 'Wedding Monsoon' as the first Indian DVD with DTS, since it was a Canadian production and the DVD a Hollywood release.

Wow!

An excellent DVD by UTV.

Progressive, Anamorphic, DD 5.1 @ 448 kbps.
Video bit rate varies bet 3 mbps to 8 or even 9 mbps. Mostly 4.5 mbps but higher bit rate for colorfull, as well as, motion scenes.

(Not seen extras disc yet)

They also showed a commercial of Munnabhaii MMG, with same PQ and same Progressive encoding. VVC's Mission Kashmir, Parineeta, Munnabhai MMG (hopefully) Progressive, what happened to Munnabhaii MBBS??
(Some VVC's DVDs by DEI/ BEI are Progressive too.)
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What other UTV DVDs are Progressive??

I downloaded from DT. They used something called CCE to rip it. The quality was awesome, I dont think there was any quality loss while they ripped it. How is that possible? Anyone know anything about CCE?

-Munna

if it's good enough for rana, it's good enough for me I'm going to order this baby based on the posts here! FINALLY, a hindi dvd to order!

You won't be disdappointed.

BTW, if we want to encourage quality DVDs like Parineeta, we must patronize it's legal DVDs. What do you think??

You won't be disdappointed.

BTW, if we want to encourage quality DVDs like Parineeta, we must patronize it's legal DVDs. What do you think??

Saw the movie. Nothing great teh way it was talked about, but definitely a good movie. Its so relaxing and refreshing to watch a movie with out "action". Very good music and BGM as well.