Sunny had said something about Mani Ratnam supervising the Uyire DVD by Ayngaran I think.........not sure of any others.

whoever is competent to do that job imho, I have seen disappointed results with techy boy Farhan Khan and Mani Sir's supervision so far!

Arsh, I guess you are referring to the Don DVD, with the extra fields. I bet he signed off on the HD transfer but didn't know about the encoding/compression.

Lagaan DVD is now available for pre-order. I ordered my copy just now.

http://www.shopping.indiatimes.com/isma ... lagaan_thm

More details available here

http://show.zoho.com/public/arrahmanfans/lagaandvd-ppt

Title :LAGAAN: Special Anniversary Edition 3-Disc DVD Set
Studio/Banner :Excel
Cast :Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthrone.
Genre rama
# Product Information Features: Fully Loaded With New, Never-Before-Seen Materials Including:
# The Spirit of LAGAAN: A curtain raiser to the music of LAGAAN
# Deleted scenes and much more!
# Trailers
# 100 stills from the Still Gallery
# Complete Set Of Rare Collector Cards
# Ten original cards reproduced exclusively for the Anniversary Edition boxed set.
# Collectible Lagaan Coin with exclusive signed message from Aamir Khan
# Chale Chalo ...the lunacy of film-making: The inspiring story of the creators of Lagaan
# Experience a full-length movie by Satyajit Bhatkal on the making of the classic in Anamorphic Widescreen with full Dolby Digital Surround Sound! Available for the first time on DVD!
# EXCLUSIVE 35mm Cinemascope Filmstrip-For the serious collector
# Each Anniversary Edition box contains a different, one-of-a-kind Filmstrip, which is carefully selected and hand-cut from an actual 35mm Cinemascope print of the movie. A Once-in-a-lifetime chance to own a piece of film history!
# Video:
# Widescreen 2.35:1 Colour (Anamorphic) (LAGAAN)
# Widescreen 1.85:1 Colour (Anamorphic) (Chale Chalo)
Audio:
# HINDI: Dolby Digital 5.1 (Lagaan)
# HINDI: DTS 5.1 (Lagaan)
# HINDI: Dolby Digital 5.1 (Chale Chalo)
Subtitles: English

cool is there a limited # of copies they will take out? i wounder if i can get a hold of this in september when i am in delhi

so aamir khan taking over the HD project, even he was not the director

I think there are only 10,000 copies as it says each box is serial numbered from 0 to 9999

Is there anyway of ordering this from the US? Tried India times but it didn't seem to want to accept my order ...

The only online Indian stores I know of that ship internationally are FirstAndSecond.com and WebMallIndia.com.

Options!

There is techncial competence and there are artistic decisions. The former can be expected from a good mastering house. The latter can only be made by the film makers. If they are not available an experienced telecine operator and colorist can surely make a good looking product, but if it's the look the film makers wanted is not guaranteed at all. If they get a reference 35mm print they can just try to copy its look. But prints are not optimal for telecine. Ideally they should get a correctly timed IP and replicate its look. If they get original negative the film makers are required or the end result is just guess work unless they have again a print for reference. Whether the film makers care at all and even have a clear vision is then again another issue.

I totally agree with you, re director/film maker's vision, but when those guys are not visionaries then

btw off the point, did u check, new BD of POTCX2? I loved those

On the way to me in a shipment. Together with Matrix Trilogy.
I also have a new projector in the house for testing: JVC RS1 clone. Except for black level and some minor issues amazing picture and a valid CRT replacement. I'm impressed.

This looks like a very nice package, and I would love to see Chale Chalo, but Rs. 1999 is about USD $50! I don't need the film strip or the coin or any of those physical extras.

KOOL, I got both! BTW! When I saw POTC 3rd one in theatre, I was so amazed to see, how color fidelity/pellete looked consistent to what I saw on BD.

I never liked DMC but just for GOOD DVD has ordered that too.

BTW, what do you think, re 1080P upscale of SD on PS3? I am loving it. I am returning my XA2, I dont need it any more for marginal difference and slow transport.