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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:11 am 
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I was just saying how long it's taken for Indian DVD to improve in another thread and then I see this atrocity - screen taken from BWT;

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:52 am 
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I remember Kaminey was proberly this dark in the cinema too :P


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:09 pm 
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If the prints for the cinema halls were as dark as the DVD looks then you cannot fault the DVD authoring. The promo's for the movie were also just as dark as the DVD. The producer had the movie shot as such.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:56 pm 
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did i miss some sarcasm here?

I watched this one in the theaters. It wasn't this dark. In fact, it was nothing like this. I saw this on bwt too, but I was hoping it was a pirated copy.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:11 pm 
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No clue.. Maybe the actual DVD shots are not this dark? I may watch this via Netflix streaming tomorrow night (so will report back on dark or no dark issue). Lucky Netflix, and UTV have a good agreement in place for UTV movies.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:15 pm 
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I've not seen at the cinema or any place else so that atrocity comment could be misguided. But it sure isn't a properly encoded DVD regardless of source. There was a pretty decent (or pirate anyway) DVD out few weeks back that had bit more contrast than this DVD - but it might be just these screen shots so not too sure.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:11 pm 
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Looking at the screen shots from home, and they don't look too dark as they did when I saw them at work. (my work comp is crap)!! If I do the netflix streaming will report it tomorrow night.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:47 pm 
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This is a scene from the train station--an outdoor and broad daylight shot!

You're first impressions were right ali saab. don't second guess yourself. lol.....ksingh paaji, i have a pretty nice monitor.

Why do we keep making excuses...?? Cause we desperately want to believe these are good transfers. Anyway, the movie is average for Bharadwaj.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:53 pm 
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Shall wait till I actually watch the movie either the UTV DVD or the Netflix streaming of the movie..


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:19 pm 
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Some more screen shots I took from the DVD;

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:24 am 
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Some one has posted information as to the Dark issues.

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=115090


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:24 am 
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Top shot from the DVD, bottom from the pirate xvid encode just to difference in contrast/brightness;

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 5:50 pm 
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Looks like a horrible DVD. I saw the movie in the theaters and yes the movie has a lot of dark scenes, but these screenshots are ridiculous. Dark does not mean you should not even be able to see anything clearly. There are tons of movies with a lot of dark scenes but they don't look anything like this on DVD.


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:40 pm 
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I just watched the song Dhan Te Nan from the DVD and on Zee Music - you cannot make out the faces on the DVD at all until the night club lights flash on the faces, yet they are clearly visible on the music video shown on Zee Music. This kind of quality reminds me of the Chandi Bar DVD from Eros;

http://www.zulm.net/modules.php?op=modl ... e=&order=0

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:19 am 
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That's horrible! :( I loved Kaminey and was looking forward to watch it again on DVD! Let's all send e-mails to UTV to let them know that we don't accept this low quality!

I remember two e-mail addresses from the Jodhaa Akbar DVD thread:

prem@utvnet.com

feedback.he@utvnet.com


If someone has another e-mail address of UTV, post it here!


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