BD reviews in this forum

[peter1976]

I personally feel that this forum has become platform for promoting and demoting the Authoring houses.

1. First Everyone asking for Parshad's Siva is the best. Later when they themselves never authored any BD like Siva their promoters kept mum and accepted that Kings sources were not good , thats why King cant be like Siva. But Parshad is the best-the group claimed.

2. Another group started promoting API- 2 weeks in advance it was declared in this forum that RockOn is coming out very good and Director Farhan Akhtar has approved without any changes. Just see the cropped PQ of BD and compare it with the screen shots. Find out from where screen shpots were published in this forum.Truth will come out . Though even their Ayan was bad but was better than RockOn.But API's promoters kept on telling that API is the best.

3. These both groups started attacking Eros's titles. Though Eros's wanted to provide maximum contents in their BD and in this process they insisted authoring house to upscale all the extra material .And these groups got the chance to attack this new authoring house. I have personally played the disc on PS3 and its playing perfectly . But in this forum it was posted agasin and again that its not paying on PS3. Though PQ of extra material was not good but PQ and AQ of main movies are very good of all the titles but attack was on.

4. YRF gave his title to a Taiwan company. PQ is OK and AQ is bad but these same groups started attacking YRF(they were not knowing about the authoring house)

5. Now The same groups are attacking Shemaroo. Even without any release from them.

Being from the technical and creative background I can say that in a good BD, the responsibility is entirely of Publisher. Publisher provides the content, publisher approves the test disc after so many changes .

So stop attacking Shemaroo

Ask any athouring house they will be ready to explain everything in their BD, good or bad. They are more interested to know viewer's opinion to give their best.They know far more than the members of the forum knows about encoding and authoring.

These are my observation and I might be wrong also.Sory if it hurts any member.

[bluindia]

Originally Posted by peter1976

I personally feel that this forum has become platform for promoting and demoting the Authoring houses.

1. First Everyone asking for Parshad's Siva is the best. Later when they themselves never authored any BD like Siva their promoters kept mum and accepted that Kings sources were not good , thats why King cant be like Siva. But Parshad is the best-the group claimed.

2. Another group started promoting API- 2 weeks in advance it was declared in this forum that RockOn is coming out very good and Director Farhan Akhtar has approved without any changes. Just see the cropped PQ of BD and compare it with the screen shots. Find out from where screen shpots were published in this forum.Truth will come out . Though even their Ayan was bad but was better than RockOn.But API's promoters kept on telling that API is the best.

3. These both groups started attacking Eros's titles. Though Eros's wanted to provide maximum contents in their BD and in this process they insisted authoring house to upscale all the extra material .And these groups got the chance to attack this new authoring house. I have personally played the disc on PS3 and its playing perfectly . But in this forum it was posted agasin and again that its not paying on PS3. Though PQ of extra material was not good but PQ and AQ of main movies are very good of all the titles but attack was on.

4. YRF gave his title to a Taiwan company. PQ is OK and AQ is bad but these same groups started attacking YRF(they were not knowing about the authoring house)

5. Now The same groups are attacking Shemaroo. Even without any release from them.

Being from the technical and creative background I can say that in a good BD, the responsibility is entirely of Publisher. Publisher provides the content, publisher approves the test disc after so many changes .

So stop attacking Shemaroo

Ask any athouring house they will be ready to explain everything in their BD, good or bad. They are more interested to know viewer's opinion to give their best.They know far more than the members of the forum knows about encoding and authoring.

These are my observation and I might be wrong also.Sory if it hurts any member.

hi I do accept.. This is what I was trying to do. Not to promote shemaroo but to know what the consumers want and this helps us to learn more about BD and its users.

[OrlandoEastwood]

Peter, check your PM's, buddy.

[kailashu]

No disrespect intended, Mr. Peter 1976, you're indeed something. I believe Peter1976 represents an authoring company.

You rate the EROS BDs at 4.5 stars in terms of PQ and AQ. So you are basically saying the EROS BDs are comparable to the Sapphire series from Paramount (Brave Heart and Forest Gump). You must be on something questionable.

If you were indeed involved in authoring the EROS BDs, it is highly unethical of you to rate the crappy EROS BDs at 4.5 stars, just my 2 cents.

[OrlandoEastwood]

I think everyone needs to calm down in this forum. These studios are new to the format. Even when studios here in the US got started on DVD back when that format came out, they had mishaps too; wether the films be in 4:3 widescreen and the blackbars were part of the picture. Everyone needs to calm down!

[peter1976]

Originally Posted by kailashu

No disrespect intended, Mr. Peter 1976, you're indeed something. I believe Peter1976 represents an authoring company.

You rate the EROS BDs at 4.5 stars in terms of PQ and AQ. So you are basically saying the EROS BDs are comparable to the Sapphire series from Paramount (Brave Heart and Forest Gump). You must be on something questionable.

If you were indeed involved in authoring the EROS BDs, it is highly unethical of you to rate the crappy EROS BDs at 4.5 stars, just my 2 cents.

You know more about me then I know.

That I am from authoring community
That I am unethical
That I am comparing Saphire with Eros's crap

But -----

I liked the BD titles as these were my first view of BD. I never seen BD before. I liked it, so I rated accordingly.I am not comparing any BD here.

When I see better BD from bollywood, I will give my rating according to my likings ONLY not as dictated by you or by anyone.

I am sorry if my observation hurted you in any way

[bugsnest]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

I Everyone needs to calm down!

Agreed! There's more speculation and bickering here than anything constructive!

There is nothing substantial happening in the Indian BD space, we would see a lot more buzz if there were. It's always amusing to see retailers on this forum constantly making empty promises and when the time comes to deliver, we get these cryptic messages like "Bollywood BD's are on hold currently” WTF??!! We get worked up and excited over nothing!

DVD’s themselves are not a mature product in India in terms of pricing, quality and availability. I consider Moser Baer a company that produces glorified VCD's! I am talking of some of the better manufacturers in India who are just about getting their act together with DVDs.
To expect a leap in authoring process to a high-definition medium like BD is asking for too much. I don't think there is the market for it yet... 5 years maybe, but for now this is going to be as good as it gets! My opinion of course.

[OrlandoEastwood]

Originally Posted by bugsnest

To expect a leap in authoring process to a high-definition medium like BD is asking for too much. I don't think there is the market for it yet... 5 years maybe, but for now this is going to be as good as it gets! My opinion of course.

Yeah, I think that everyone who wants Indian films on Blu-ray is going to have to mainly rely on imports from the US and Europe. But that also means that you'd have to buy a Region All Blu-ray player and the only place I know of that is HKFlix. The cheapest Region All Blu-ray Player is $250 USD.

[jwbbud]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

Yeah, I think that everyone who wants Indian films on Blu-ray is going to have to mainly rely on imports from the US and Europe. But that also means that you'd have to buy a Region All Blu-ray player and the only place I know of that is HKFlix. The cheapest Region All Blu-ray Player is $250 USD.

Not really, i got the Sherwood with the region hack for 58.00.....it sells now for around 125.00-150.00

[OrlandoEastwood]

Cool, the only reason I got into going all regions was back with DVD. I lived in Germany so if I wanted anything off the German Economy, I'd have to play them on my computer and then I screwed up and locked the Region to "Region 1". I was so screwed. So then, in the Summer of 2004, I finally found a jWin player for $40 and it was a Region All DVD player and I was relieved. It converted PAL to NTSC. Then luckily, Black Friday 2005, I got another jWin Region All DVD player for $18. I have Blu-ray drive set to Region B since my Insignia Blu-ray player is only Region A.

[vveksuvarna]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

Cool, the only reason I got into going all regions was back with DVD. I lived in Germany so if I wanted anything off the German Economy, I'd have to play them on my computer and then I screwed up and locked the Region to "Region 1". I was so screwed. So then, in the Summer of 2004, I finally found a jWin player for $40 and it was a Region All DVD player and I was relieved. It converted PAL to NTSC. Then luckily, Black Friday 2005, I got another jWin Region All DVD player for $18. I have Blu-ray drive set to Region B since my Insignia Blu-ray player is only Region A.

most dvd players can be region hacked throough your remote control.

just google your model no + region free hack

and it should bring you the codes.


i havent heard a successful bd region free hack yet. someone tried to unlock the dvd regions on the bluray player & they next firrmware shut the the machine down completely.

so im holding off, until the labrat session is over.

[blufish444]

Originally Posted by vveksuvarna

most dvd players can be region hacked throough your remote control.

just google your model no + region free hack

and it should bring you the codes.


i havent heard a successful bd region free hack yet. someone tried to unlock the dvd regions on the bluray player & they next firrmware shut the the machine down completely.

so im holding off, until the labrat session is over.

So hackers like you are still present and prolong.... Authoring houses and content providers wont stop the logo marking in their disc if this still exists .. stop hacking and piracy. then kindly speak about logo marking and stuffs...

[OrlandoEastwood]

I don't think that's the reason why studios are putting thier logos on during a film is because of people hacking region codes.

[vveksuvarna]

Originally Posted by blufish444

So hackers like you are still present and prolong.... Authoring houses and content providers wont stop the logo marking in their disc if this still exists .. stop hacking and piracy. then kindly speak about logo marking and stuffs...

indian movies are regionfree.

why would a regionfree player force them to superimpose their logo ?

[OrlandoEastwood]

Well, they could start region locking, but forcing a logo on a film is not caused by hacking, if it was, the studios must be on drugs or something.

[jwbbud]

Originally Posted by blufish444

So hackers like you are still present and prolong.... Authoring houses and content providers wont stop the logo marking in their disc if this still exists .. stop hacking and piracy. then kindly speak about logo marking and stuffs...

I dont think region coding has much to do with piracy(it has a small element), it was more of a control over releases in different markets as to whom watched what. Basically a way to release something in Europe and release it 6 mos later in USA and not worry about any studio losing money to importing
Thia is based off what I have read and not an official answer

[OrlandoEastwood]

Regional coding drove me nuts on DVD, but after I got those jWin, it made watching my German DVDs smooth sailing.

[jwbbud]

I never actually imported DVD like I do with blu-ray. I have one region 2 DVD and it was an accident. Blu-ray, especially the UK offered many titles not in the USA , I hit those 3 for 2 sales hard on AMZ, now I shop in France and Germany regularly ....spending too much money sometimes. I did get a Region B Samsung off AMZ as well, great investment, plus allows me to check discs for members here.
I am working on checking out these region C titles as its a blooming market. I have that Sherwood I got back in July with the remote hack so I may have to hook it up and get rid of my region B player

[OrlandoEastwood]

Well, I was stuck with what DVDs were on the government bases. If there was something that I wanted that they didn't have; I had to rely on the German stores to see if they had it.