Eagle’s Anand Blu-ray vs DEI upscaled DVD

[rajkapoor]

I have Eagle’s Anand and Deewar BRs. I was thinking of getting their others titles too. As I’m ripping my DEIs DVDs to a hard drive these days and looking at my list of DEIs titles, I suddenly realized that all the BRs Eagle has released so far or is going to release in near future are DEIs titles. These include Anand, Deewar, Golmaal, Bawarchi, Khoobsurat, Don and even Gupt. Then I decided to compare BR and DVD of Anand . I played both of them through my Oppo 103D. I found the BR slightly better than the DVD on my 132” screen. Eagle must have used a professional scaler. Here are the shots I took with my camera at the lowest resolution.

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Anand_DVD.jpg

Now I’m thinking that even Yash Raj probably did the same thing. That’s why their Kabhi Kabhi and Silsala were not good.

I’m so glad that I have most of DEI and Yash Raj DVDs. How much better quality one can expect from BR of an older Indian movie?