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Zoran009
PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 7:31 pm 
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Koi... Mil Gaya DVD Review


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Disk Details

Disk Name
Koi... Mil Gaya

Region (1=US, 2=UK etc)
All Region

Picture Format (Widescreen, Standard, Anamorphic)
Anamorphic Widescreen

Disk Format (No of Side, No of Layers)
Dual Layered

Audio Formats
Dolby Digital 5.1

Running Time
170 minutes

Subtitles
English

Disk Extras
Trailers of the movie

Producer
Rakesh Roshan

Starring
Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Rekha, Rakesh Roshan, Rajat Bedi and Johnny Lever

Review

Video
(7) Vibrant colors but a little blurry at times with a lot specs on and off.

Audio
(8) Dynamic Dolby Digital 5.1

Extras
Not much extras on the one disc version

Overall
A good DVD with a good transfer. Yash Raj Films continues to release high quality DVDs of new Hindi movies. However we request that Yash Raj Films do Film to NTSC transfers and not Film to PAL then convert the video from PAL to NTSC.

Rating (between 1 and 10)
Overall rating 7 ½ out of 10. This DVD could have scored higher if Yash Raj had done a film to NTSC transfer!!
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rana
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Watch dog is Learning

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Zoran009
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http://indianwatchdog.netfirms.com/consumers/koir.html
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rana
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rana wrote:
Watch dog is Learning

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Rana

I meant to ask was, what makes you say, "they are learning"?? And, what are the learning/ reporting. (KMG DVD gets a high score).

Rana

P.S.
Thanks for the link.
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Zoran009
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I know but he did not use his usual, 9.5/10, grading, a la previous yrf releases...and did aknowledge from zulm experience that pal to ntsc, video mode conversion is undesirable!!! but if u go by different people's reviews, they use very different perspective..one reviewer rated baba YDR dvd 9-10/10..must have? :bangbang:

EVERY THING COMING FROM YRF IS NOT GOLD.... :baaa:



Edited By arsh on 1067278194
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mhafner
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rana wrote:
Watch dog is Learning

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Rana

Not really. Blurry is right (due to field averaging), but
there is no proof that PAL was involved, and they fail to
mention the bad edge enhancement and aliasing problems.
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rana
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mhafner wrote:
Blurry is right (due to field averaging), but
there is no proof that PAL was involved, and they fail to
mention the bad edge enhancement and aliasing problems.

You are right, one can't say for sure that it's PAL to NTSC transfer, but most likely this is the reason for field averaging. For Film to NTSC transfers, repeat field pattern is visible even in 4th or 5th generation VHS copies.

Even PAL to NTSC transfers don't have to have field averaging and a repeat field can be inserted every 6th, (instead of 5th for film to NTSC) field, but for lack of effort or competence, it's almost never done. (Abot half of EVP Hindi DVDs have repeat pattern where every 6th field is repeated, indicating a PAL to NTSC or a 25 fps digital to NTSC transfer).

BTW, even Film to NTSC transfers can be field averaged if they really and intentionally want to ruin their encoding.

Rana
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Zoran009
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[BTW, even Film to NTSC transfers can be field averaged if they really and intentionally want to ruin their encoding.]

Why the heck? :nopity:
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