While the Blu-Ray / m-HD / Blu-Ray rip movie download fever is ON, i just went through an article which listed out the best movies to be watched in Blu-Ray. Most of them were pretty popular like Dark Knight etc, but interestingly, i found some rare movies in the list. Not sure if most of you folks have heard some of its’ names, like me.

Baraka
Blade Runner
How the West was Won
Mad Men
The Police: Certifiable
Ratatouille
Ice Age – Triology
Rescue Dawn
Ronin
Sunshine
Tropic Thunder
Gladiator
Dark City–Director’s Cut
Horton Hears a Who
The Godfather–The Coppola Restoration
Master and Commander
Planet Earth
Seabiscuit
Heat
Monsters, Inc.
Patton
Shaun of the Dead
Star Trek
North by Northwest
2001: A Space Odyssey

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This beta version will expire on October 2010.

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Blu-ray technology is supported by electronics giants such as Sony, Samsung, Phillips, and Panasonic. The storage capacity of Blu-ray media is at least 50 gigabytes (GB), which is six times higher than any existing DVD.

Blu-ray DVDs can store a 13-hour normal-quality video or 2-hour high-quality video. HD-DVD, which is supported by Toshiba and NEC, and is compatible with the current DVD standard and cheaper than Blu-ray. HD-DVD’s storage capacity is about three times that of the DVD disk (4.7 GB), which is 15GB for single-layer discs and 30GB for double-layer discs. It can support recording and playback of existing CD or DVD discs. You can enjoy high-quality video at 1080p resolution, which is about six times sharper than the existing DVD. Blu-ray’s advantage is its huge storage capacity, whereas HD-DVD is comparatively cheap. So these two products are leading the market with equal influence

Edgelit LED backlighting has allowed LCDs to get thinner than ever, but at some point you run into physical limitation; you can’t make a TV thinner than the actual inputs. That is, unless you move the inputs somewhere else, which is precisely what Sony has done with its new KDL-XBR10 line of LCDs. The XBR10 series uses a separate media receiver to handle inputs, and it transmits video wirelessly to the display, similar to the design of Panasonic’s 1-inch-thick Z1 plasmas. The rest of the features are similar to what’s available on other Sony LCDs

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Looking at the title, one might think that the content is about some expressway which has some sophisticated infrastructure. Well, it is not. Super-digital-highway is a concept thought about by ITU (International Telecommunications Union) during the early 2000s during 3G technology planning. I came across this in one of the telecom forums.

I was amazed by the cryptography that they planned. Unfortunately, it is still not implemented. To say in an understandable terminology, it is a technology to cram 11,000 phone calls onto one optical fibre and extract them again.

Well, they say this concept got saturated slowly due to the telecoms crash during 2001 and more business based ideas later. Whatever the reasons might be, hats off to the extensive R&D done by the engineering organisations and companies, where they go to an extent which even makes techies feel “wow”. This is why research, patience and standards are given utmost importance in telecom industry to make it strong, which IT is definitely lacking and making itself more volatile.

No blog updates, hot weather, no movie releases, no gadget hypes and horrible cricket! Well, there couldn’t be a month as boring as it was.

The only achievement i could do was to find out a hack which downloads RS links without a Premium Account, just like the way IDM does with a Premium Account. I got a polish software, (on which nothing can be understood basically as the options are written in polish and unfortunately no translations), which if u can tamper with a little Javascript, handles the downloads in a queue. The time countdown between each files is also handled by the software itself. Though it has certain limitations like pausing a file dowload during progress is not possible currently, but it suffices the major usecase of downloading stuff from warez. Have to see if we can mod it more.

Gadget updates, there aren’t many that i’ve read/come across except for the Dolphin Music Players, Windows 7, Power Cinema etc. I would soon come up with some reviews!

I casted my vote today morning at Secunderabad constituency. Its a proud feeling, i have to say. I dont want to be one of the so-called ‘civilized’ people, who just ‘talk’ too much whenever we have some criticism to be made about the politicians and end-up by doing nothing as a responsibility at the end of the day. Those who do not vote, doesnt have the right to comment on the politics, government or the crime happening around you. If you think you have the right to democracy, it is only after that you vote.

Buddies, i believe in doing things than talking. You have the power to change – the corruption, increasing poverty, falling economy and everything. Utilize the power.

Please do cast your vote.

What can i say about this new generation i-pod which apple has come out with? It is as big as your door lock key!, and guess what?, you can talk to it. As mentioned in the apple site “A French love song. A Spanish bolero. An Italian cantata.”, it understands about 14 languages and shuffle’s the song based on titles, artists and playlist names.

This third generation iPod shuffle is significantly smaller than a AA battery, holds up to 1,000 songs and is easier to use with all of the controls located on the earphone cord. With the press of a button, users can play, pause, adjust volume, switch playlists and hear the name of the song and artist.

The iPod shuffle comes in silver or black and features a new aluminum design with a built-in stainless steel clip that makes it ultra-wearable.

The iPod shuffle can tell also tell users status information, such as battery life and can speak 14 languages including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

iPod shuffle comes with the Apple Earphones with Remote and the iPod shuffle USB cable.

Some pictures from the web:

My Cousin’s son Praneeth in a lovely mood!

Some pictures of Bunty’s new Bike Unicorn on the Vizag beach road, Oh! I Love my photography!