Hmm, noboday answered my question

Adilr17 your question was answered when Sunny started this thread:

Shahran Sunny Audit wrote:

While UK and USA fans are stuck with the bogged down version of the film, a new version is now in the works.

Using Ayngaran's Boys DVD as reference Farhan Akthar is now working on a new version of Dil Chahta Hai for the Indian DVD domestic release.

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Progressive

Thank you, Dragun. Now I hope I will understand it after reading.

Anwar wrote:

DragunR2 wrote:

Anwar wrote:

Can anyone please explain me what is meant by 'authoring'? Does it mean transferring the film from i-don't-know-what to DVD? And what are the exact differences of a single-layered and a double-layered disc? Also.. I read people saying "PROG".. what does that mean?

Progressive

Thank you, Dragun. Now I hope I will understand it after reading.

In short:

Progressive:
Film is 24 frames per sec. To convert it to NTSC (60 fields per sec), each film frame is transferred into 2 fields and every 5th field is a repeat of previous one. As DVD is digital medium, instead of recording the repeated field, an instruction (flag) is given to player to repeat the previous field.

Pseudo-Progressive:
Repeat video field is un-necessarily recorded. Each video field contains info from only one film frame and hence is not blurred.

Field Averaged Interlaced (Khichdi):
Each video field contains picture information from more than one film frames. This is usually the result of Film to PAL to NTSC (and further) series of conversions, without making any attempt to keep the film frames separate. Even though, each video field is blurred (due to info from more than one image), in a moving picture, you don't see the blurred picture as eyes do the informatin averaging.

Rana



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The recent high grain in DVDs authored at Prasad is because they focus too much on keeping the picture sharper. This results in excessive grain. Softening the sharpness a bit should reduce the grain according to them.

Now why haven't we heard anything about this new Dil Chahta Hai DVD?
Or is it just a rumour?

So Spark isn't in charge of the Dil Chahta Hai DVD anymore? I bought my 2-disc set online from IndiaWeekly.com a little bit after it came out, and I think mine has disc rot problems, too. It stops playing at certain points in the movie, and it's the Spark edition. It'd be cool to know there is gonna be a new edition (playable in the U.S.) that is better quality.

According to Indiatimes web store DCH has been released recently by Sony on a 2 disc DVD.

http://store.indiatimes.com/video/Plane ... id=vid3491

Maybe this is the version that we should look out for?

I have a friend coming from Mumbai to the UK in April and I will ask him to find a copy of this DVD for me before he comes. I'll let you know what it's like unless someone beats me to it!

...... Just got my copy of DCH 2 DVD SET (Sony Music Digital Home Entertainment). I am at work now, only info i can provide is what is printed on the cover.

Firstly; the cover is like english dvds that i own (collector's edition of Unbreakable & SE7EN).

Secondly; subtitles available in: English; Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya

Thirdly;
Running time indicating: over 220 minutes.
Format: All Regions - NTSC
Sound Coding: 5.1 Dolby Digital

Lastly;
contains extra disc! featuring never seen before scenes, making of, promos etc.


so .... any questions?

(if god willing) screenshots coming up shortly... (as soon as i get home to be exact which is 9 hours way).