Interesting Information from YRF (taken from Blu-ray.com) forum.

Almost certain that YRF will beat out EROS once again with the next 10 Blu-Ray releases.


Dear All,

With reference to your queries on the Blu-ray, I am putting down the information.

1. We have released our film New York on Blu-ray recently. It is exclusively available along with Philips BRD Players in India through a strategic tie-up with them. It has been serviced to UK, USA and UAE through our regular distribution channels.

2. Our next 10 titles, already displayed on our website, will be released end November or early December as the process is very time consuming and we are making them with extra care on all quality aspects to give you best possible products. The authoring, glass master and the replication of these titles are being done outside India at one of the best facility in the world.

3. All our titles will have all regions playability and are BD50. They will have English, Arabic, Tamil and Telugu subtitles at 10 Bit resolution.

4. The picture (Film) will be full resolution (1920X1080P) high definition with Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS sound along with additional Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo sound.

5. The special features are also included in few films, wherever we have them. However, these are in standard definition with Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Sound as these are recorded in this format and cannot be upgraded like a film.

6. We don’t have an online payment mechanism as of now. All buyers in India have the option to pre-book these titles in a special offer till 31.10.2009 as per the details given on our website. All these orders will be shipped out in India to reach you before the retail launch and with no additional delivery charges.

7. They would be available in key retail outlets in select cities in India after this and you can buy them from stores like Music World, Planet M, Crossword, Rhythm House (Mumbai) and many others.

8. All buyers outside India can contact my colleague Gaurav at gaurav@yashrajfilms.com for further information on local distributors in select countries, which can be contacted for info on Blu-ray products from time to time.

9. Any further queries on the technical specifications can be addressed to my colleague Victor at victor@yashrajfilms.com.

Here’s wishing you a very Happy Diwali.

Regards,

Vijay Kumar
Vice President
Home Entertainment & Music

Maybe some of our zulm experts need to ask victor why YRF does not include lossless audio.

Not a bad idea to email victor at YRF to ask about lossless audio in a civil manner (with out abusive words like "why the hell don't you include lossless audio" ).

Please be civil when emailing Victor so we don't lose this channel of communication thanks to a few people who cannot control sending abusive emails!

Shame on Yash Raj, once again the Bollywood movie fan is going to get shafted. NO LOSSLESS AUDIO and even worse, they don't even feel the need to try and explain or justify, although personally I think this is unjustifiable, why there will only be DVD quality sound on a High Definition format.

I wonder if its a licensing issue.

If they are too cheap to pay for DTS-HD MA liscensing, they can always provide a lossless 'LPCM' audio track. There is no liscensing fee involved in that.

As already stated / suggested

I concur with you!

I dont believe the reason that we are including special features so we will not be using HD audio is something I would buy.

taken from blu-ray.com http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p ... stcount=90

This is so retarded. Next thing thing they will say is we had to cut out part of the film because we did not have enough space to include some stupid extra.

HEAR THIS BOLLYWOOD.

NOTHING SHOULD TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER THE AUDIO & VIDEO QUALITY OF THE MAIN FEATURE. NOTHING!

In any case the easiest solution was to include the extras on a seperate DVD while the main feature is presented on a BD in 1080p Video & DTS-HD MA Audio. How simple is that? In fact they could market the titles with tweo different SKUs. A two disc (1BD + 1 DVD) special edition with extras and a single disc edition without the extras for those who don't really care for the extras.

lmao Sanjay. give it to them!!

IMAO


You sound as if your running for office at Bollywood!!

HEAR THIS BOLLYWOOD.

NOTHING SHOULD TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER THE AUDIO & VIDEO QUALITY OF THE MAIN FEATURE. NOTHING!

from Blu-Ray forum again

This, is an even more stupid reason than the one given earlier, ie. lack of space due to extras, and is totally untrue. Someone really needs to give these guys a crash course in the technical details of Blu-Ray discs and specially on how the new HD audio formats work. Both, 'DTS-HD Master Audio' & 'Dolby TrueHD' are completely backward compatible with older recievers and processors. When using an optical or co-axial digital connection, the BD player automatically outputs the core audio stream. In the case of 'DTS-HD Master Audio' the full lossless HD bitstream is output via the HDMI connector, while the core DTS 1536 kbps bitstream is output from the optical/co-axial digital connector, thus benefitting even "old amps". Which, by the way, is also a huge improvement over DTS on DVD, since DTS on DVD is mostly limited to only 768 kbps.

Bottom line, EVERYONE benefits from having a lossless 'DTS-HD Master Audio' track on the Blu-ray disc. Finally for the love of god, please stop perpetuating this nonsense, that somehow including 'DTS-HD Master Audio' or even 'Dolby TrueHD' tracks on a BD are at the expense of old amps, for it is not true.

The old surround amps with DD & DTS will not be able to play out HD
audio stream and if they want to play out through the old amps then they
will have to do so by using analogue 5.1 cable connections and not
optical or co-axial digital connections.

What Victor wrote back was correct on the type of cables needed. With that being a valid point the majority of people in India are using older receivers which do not support or have HDMI which is needed for the newer HD audio codecs.

Info below is taken from Home Theater Audio

Cables Needed: Toslink (Optical) or Coaxial S/PDIF cannot carry a 5.1 LPCM signal, so the signal will be reduced to 2 channels only. However, any version of HDMI connection can carry the LPCM signal in full quality. Multi-Channel Analog Cables can also be used (see footnote)..

Cables Needed: Toslink (Optical) or Coaxial S/PDIF cannot carry a TrueHD signal and will automatically play the standard Dolby Digital AC-3 track instead. If the player converts the TrueHD to PCM, the signal can be transmitted over any version of HDMI. If the TrueHD signal is transmitted via bitstream, HDMI 1.3 will be needed. Multi-Channel Analog Cables can also be used (see footnote).

Cables Needed: Same as Dolby TrueHD, except if Toslink (Optical) or Digital S/PDIF is used, the standard DTS Digital track will be played.