byronicman wrote:
It is good to be super critical and ZULM is on the forefront of wanting to see the state of Indian DVDs improve as the should. I don't think readers should take all of the critical opinion to mean that something is crap. I was critical of the Devdas DVD in an eariler post. It could have been better. (I think LOTR DVD could have been better) Every DVD could use improvement.
You should probably check out the LOTR Extended Cut DVD when it comes out. Spread over 2 discs, the 208 minute film has DD and DTS 5.1 tracks and 4 audio commentaries. Here is an excerpt from the DVDfile.com review:
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In terms of transfer quality, I compared the bit rate of the same five scenes between the theatrical and extended cuts, and both clocked in at about the same rate. The Extended Cut is easily on par with the previous released, boasting a wonderful, three-dimensional quality to rival the best transfers. (It also has a more smooth, film-like quality that it's big competition this year for top demo disc, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.) The print is pristine with nothing at all to distract, save for a bit of minor grain here or there, but surprisingly minimal for a film shot in Super35. Color reproduction is rich and vivid, with perfect fleshtones and - the real true test of any great transfer - wonderful and lush greens. Blacks are perfect, contrast excellent, and shadow delineation wonderfully detailed and sharp.
If there is anything I can complain about, it is that just like the theatrical cut, sometimes the film appears a little dark, leaving the grimy interiors looking a tad murky and undefined. Contrast also looks a bit blown out, but this appears consistent with the intended look of the film and match the theatrical cut. Overall sharpness and detail also equals the theatrical version, which isn't surprisingly given the similar bit rates. I did again notice some minor halos around the most sharply contrasted of objects, but there are no compression artifacts to speak of. New Line again has delivered the goods and continues to impress with the most consistently fine transfers of any studio around.
Even with all this on 2 discs, the word from advance reviews of the box set is that the audio/video quality is nothing short of amazing. For a studio not to be able to come close to this sort of quality on shorter films shows either complete ineptness, extreme pennypinching, or plain laziness on their part. Devdas may be 3 hours long, but perhaps some of those compression artifacts could have been avoided by splitting the film onto 2 discs (instead of the useless second disc they included) and by caring about what the product looks like.
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??? :angry:
Or maybe I need to get my eyes checked 
And finally what you saw in the theatre was a "FILM"... what you see here on the DVD is something that has been encoded from a Video Master !
