"LAGAAN" in HD on ZeeTV HD... Hope for Bluray alive?

[technobhatt]

I have a habit on weekend to schedule recording of newly unwatched Hindi movies to be telecast on various Hindi HD channels; so that I can watch these movies later at my ease.
Surprisingly, last Sunday I found 'Lagaan' movie having a scheduled telecast on Zee Tv HD in the afternoon 1pm. So I recorded it and watched the same last night.

Few observations:

- This was a really an HD transfer; not an up-scaled DVD type transfer; as I had observed in few movies on Colors HD such as 'Hasee Toh Fasee' etc.
You can call it equivalent to the Web-HDRip quality.

- All the day scenes looked pretty good. I remember watching this movie in theater on 30th June 2001 in a matinee show and post that date, I think this is the best version I have come across so far, after the DVD I watched that was released in 2007.

- I observed lot of Black Crush in darker/night scenes.

- Movie was telecast in its theatrical length of 224 Minutes.

- Sound was Stereo as the channel comes with Stereo AAC sound only. However there was no problem with the stereo sound. It was properly arranged. In few scenes, I liked the background music sounding pretty well.

After seeing the movie in better than DVD quality, I seriously wish Lagaan Bluray gets released soon.

I have taken few screenshots on my 40" TV from a digital camera. Pardon my pathetic photography skills. Few pics look blurred because the camera couldn't capture the moving objects well or probably I don't know how to take photos...
There are plenty of pics; so I have put them in spoiler tag.
Imagine watching full movie through these pics

[Show spoiler]

[anibap]

Good to hear Lagaan HD broadcast is of good quality. Hope the BD will be out soon, but we have been hearing it will be out soon for the last 2-3 years.

In the meantime, how can I get this HDTV recording? How big is the file?

[technobhatt]

Originally Posted by anibap

In the meantime, how can I get this HDTV recording? How big is the file?

Well.... This was recorded in the HDD of set top box; hence no idea about file size. And I don't know how to decrypt and copy files from HDTV...

[prepress]

Hi technobhatt, How are you? After a long time you are online.

Even I do the same thing, I always check all HD channels to see which movie is scheduled and I record them to watch with family or to see the quality if movie is old/unreleased on Blu-ray. So recorded "Lagaan" too, but didn't get a chance to watch the movie yet, however watched the climax live and found that satisfactory and now there is a hope for "Lagaan" Blu-ray because I have seen "Lagaan" "Delhi Belly" and "Rang De Basanti" Blu-ray releasing soon ads inside the Excel Blu-rays.

So we already have "Rang De Basanti" now, so may be next is "Lagaan" or "Delhi Belly".

Sad Part : In my most recent Excel purchase (around 4-5 movies) there was new ad which don't have "Lagaan" and "Delhi Belly".

Originally Posted by technobhatt

I have a habit on weekend to schedule recording of newly unwatched Hindi movies to be telecast on various Hindi HD channels; so that I can watch these movies later at my ease.
Surprisingly, last Sunday I found 'Lagaan' movie having a scheduled telecast on Zee Tv HD in the afternoon 1pm. So I recorded it and watched the same last night.

[Show spoiler]
Few observations:

- This was a really an HD transfer; not an up-scaled DVD type transfer; as I had observed in few movies on Colors HD such as 'Hasee Toh Fasee' etc.
You can call it equivalent to the Web-HDRip quality.

- All the day scenes looked pretty good. I remember watching this movie in theater on 30th June 2001 in a matinee show and post that date, I think this is the best version I have come across so far, after the DVD I watched that was released in 2007.

- I observed lot of Black Crush in darker/night scenes.

- Movie was telecast in its theatrical length of 224 Minutes.

- Sound was Stereo as the channel comes with Stereo AAC sound only. However there was no problem with the stereo sound. It was properly arranged. In few scenes, I liked the background music sounding pretty well.

After seeing the movie in better than DVD quality, I seriously wish Lagaan Bluray gets released soon.

I have taken few screenshots on my 40" TV from a digital camera. Pardon my pathetic photography skills. Few pics look blurred because the camera couldn't capture the moving objects well or probably I don't know how to take photos...
There are plenty of pics; so I have put them in spoiler tag.
Imagine watching full movie through these pics

[anibap]

Originally Posted by technobhatt

Well.... This was recorded in the HDD of set top box; hence no idea about file size. And I don't know how to decrypt and copy files from HDTV...

Thanks. I just wanted to know. I don't have TV at home (don't ask, long story ).

I was wondering if I can get access to such HDTV recordings from friends in form of media files to run from laptop.

[technobhatt]

Originally Posted by anibap

Thanks. I just wanted to know. I don't have TV at home (don't ask, long story ).

I was wondering if I can get access to such HDTV recordings from friends in form of media files to run from laptop.

Check your PM. Hope that helps.

[mrbrat_Boy]

Those screenshots look really good, thanks bro. I know many people waiting for this blu ray. The tranfer looks good, but any idea where Zee would source the transfer? Would it be from Excel, or is this something Zee does for their HD channel?

[prepress]

^ I guess channels do their own mastering for TVs. But sometimes a common master (already done by someone else) is used everywhere even for Blu-ray, that depends on the Blu-ray company if they want to use already mastered source or want to re-master/authoring again from the raw source.

[mrbrat_Boy]

Originally Posted by prepress

^ I guess channels do their own mastering for TVs. But sometimes a common master (already done by someone else) is used everywhere even for Blu-ray, that depends on the Blu-ray company if they want to use already mastered source or want to re-master/authoring again from the raw source.

Thanks bro

Was Devdas ever shown on Zee HD?

[prepress]

Originally Posted by mrbrat_Boy

Thanks bro

Was Devdas ever shown on Zee HD?

I have never seen Devdas on any HD channel even not regular on SD channels too. Seen rarely on Set-Max (I guess)

But there are lot of movies which comes on weekly basis and some are within 2-3 days

[technobhatt]

@mrbrat: As prepress told... ZEE Network does their own HD mastering for movies on its channels ZeeTVHD and ZeeCinemaHD.

Few old movies to be mentioned are-
Coolie, Deewar, Muqaddar Ka Sikander, Naseeb, Shaan and even few RajKapoor movies like PremRog and Sangam. I even watch Hum Aapke Hain Kaun & Hum Saath Saath Hain on these channels very frequently

Both these channels telecast all their movies in true 1080i HD with Stereo sound.
Rest of the Hindi or English HD channels here either show 720p telecast or have very poor bit-rate in comparison to Zee HD channels.
However IMO sports channel SonySixHD (which telecast IPL every year) is the best in picture quality among all.

[HDDCS]

Unfortunately, HDDCS & Devdas are always telecast on the stupid Sahara one and FILMY (both SD) channels. Both the movies are heavily cut and are sourced from the Eros DVDs. Both the movies are on atrociously authored Eros versions. HDDCS appears very ugly with muffled and very poor audio. Devdas looks comparatively good.

I'm really glad DEi and Diaphana editions of the respective movies exist, which I'm sure will beat the crap out of all the upcoming and the other existing versions. I don't even expect true HD transfers to come close to these DVD versions.

Have these two movies ever been telecast on HD channels abroad? Answers would be much appreciated.

[technobhatt]

Originally Posted by HDDCS

Have these two movies ever been telecast on HD channels abroad? Answers would be much appreciated.

I am certain the answer is 'not so far' ... or I would have known about it

[gtrekker]

Here in the UK we only have Star Plus HD and they only show 2 films every weekend, which is annoying especially as they always have the same films on repeat minus a few premieres here and there. However for older films such as Hero No. 1 and Chalte Chalte that they have aired they appear to be upscaled sources with the print quality no where near HD. There a few Hindi movie channels in the UK but they are all SD, worse still is the fact that the channels are broadcasting in 4:3, therefore I doubt the films they show are being shown in the correct aspect ratio

[nirajmalhotra72]

LAGAAN !! One of my favorite movie of all !

[jbloggs]

Originally Posted by technobhatt

I have a habit on weekend to schedule recording of newly unwatched Hindi movies to be telecast on various Hindi HD channels; so that I can watch these movies later at my ease.
Surprisingly, last Sunday I found 'Lagaan' movie having a scheduled telecast on Zee Tv HD in the afternoon 1pm. So I recorded it and watched the same last night.

Few observations:

- This was a really an HD transfer; not an up-scaled DVD type transfer; as I had observed in few movies on Colors HD such as 'Hasee Toh Fasee' etc.
You can call it equivalent to the Web-HDRip quality.

- All the day scenes looked pretty good. I remember watching this movie in theater on 30th June 2001 in a matinee show and post that date, I think this is the best version I have come across so far, after the DVD I watched that was released in 2007.

- I observed lot of Black Crush in darker/night scenes.

- Movie was telecast in its theatrical length of 224 Minutes.

- Sound was Stereo as the channel comes with Stereo AAC sound only. However there was no problem with the stereo sound. It was properly arranged. In few scenes, I liked the background music sounding pretty well.

After seeing the movie in better than DVD quality, I seriously wish Lagaan Bluray gets released soon.

I have taken few screenshots on my 40" TV from a digital camera. Pardon my pathetic photography skills. Few pics look blurred because the camera couldn't capture the moving objects well or probably I don't know how to take photos...
There are plenty of pics; so I have put them in spoiler tag.
Imagine watching full movie through these pics

Wow ! That's amazing, I really can't believe it...that you actually remember the exact date and show time of the movie you watched over 13 years ago, I'm impressed. I watch Spider-man 2 and best I can tell you is that it was a few days ago.

[technobhatt]

Originally Posted by jbloggs

Wow ! That's amazing, I really can't believe it...that you actually remember the exact date and show time of the movie you watched over 13 years ago, I'm impressed. I watch Spider-man 2 and best I can tell you is that it was a few days ago.

Well I don't remember or note the dates for each movie..
It's just that I remember it for Lagaan and few other movies...
Those were school times and I was enjoying summer vacations. I went to watch this movie with my younger bro and 2 other cousins...and we had a real blast in theater because there were not much people in the matinee show and we were standing and jumping on the seats during the match in the movie
It was 30th June and last day of summer vacation because the next day on 1st July was new school year to be started... I don't know how many times I told my friends next day in school that how awesome Lagaan movie is

[HDDCS]

Hi! Not sure if this is an appropriate post for this thread, but just to notify you that Khamoshi : The Musical is being telecast on Star Gold HD tomorrow morning. I hope the quality is good.

[sanjay0864]

Unfortunately ZEE HD does not have DD5.1 audio

[Hindustani]

LAGAAN has not aged well at all. I would rather see average DEVDAS on bluray. As the latter aged well.