SRK speaks so irratically, we think we already heard him

The German DVD of Don will not have the double frame motion issues. Good news.

And hopefully not the pixellating problems either?

I guess so. It's not done yet. The master is Digibeta without the extra frames.

did the dvd come out in india yet? and does it have the same frame problem? and is the pq the same as utv version?

Well, bad news folks. The German DVD from REM has its own set of screw-ups as well. Firstly, the audio is terribly garbled thanks to REM's pitch correction. Second, the colours and contrast (which were at least good on UTV's disc) have been altered, boosted and are now over-saturated and look orange with clipping in white areas. Lastly, the image has been smoothed affecting the sharpness.

The disc does at least NOT have the repeated frames and pixellating problems that the UTV release did, but all in all I'd say these new mess-ups just cancel any good points out.

REM screenshots:

has interlaced look to it, looks worse to me. thats why I say!! dont let directors close to these films

We can't blame Farhan this time - he had nothing to do with this release.

By the way, the bloopers on this disc are of better quality than the main feature.

so, you or mhafner, can possibly point out, if not director why this release, NTSC or PAL is consistently defective?

Just the usual simple case of incompetence by the studio guys doing the MPEG encoding I'd assume.

I'm sure Farhan Akhtar only supervised the HD telecine (which looked fine to me) and had no input with either DVD release. The blame lies with UTV and REM.

so, how on the earth amir khan can be effective if dvd authoring companies are incompetent

The rights holder for a territory (say Germany) gets a Digibeta from the producers. The right holders can do with the Digibeta what they want. Push the colors, change the contrast, apply DNR etc. Then MPEG compress for the DVD. What they do depends on what they like and who they do it for (for example if a TV channel bought it and has its own standards they have to humour the TV channels demands).

in HIGH DEF age, Hindi dvds from big houses are being authored from digi beta no doubt, my impression was that it looked like interlaced affair

I don't understand why people consistently have such high expectations from Hindi DVDs - show me a company that releases Hindi DVDs to the same standards as any Hollywood company. UTV have released a couple of good DVDs, but the rest of the companies (including BEI nowadays) release complete and utter shite. This is nothing new - as has been discussed in other threads, the Hi-Def age will make no difference to the overall quality of Hindi DVDs, it'll just be another way for them to rip off the consumer.

I am ready for DIGI BETA transfered to HD DVD