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Friday, December 22, 2006

Home Theatre

"MUMBAI: In one stroke, Optical disk manufacturer Moser Baer has destroyed the business model of pirated movie seller and even the DVD libraries across the country. Delhi based optical disk maker is going to launch Hindi movies on DVD at Rs 38 and VCD at Rs 24. The price of a Hindi DVD at the retail end varies from Rs 200 to Rs 400 and even higher if it's a new release. Moser Baer's comparable price is one tenth of the existing retail price for these disks. The MRPs for Moser Baer movies will be even lower than rentals from libraries or buying pirated DVDs or VCDs. Moser Baer has developed new technology to bring the price down for the Digital Video Discs (DVDs) and Video Compact DisksTheatre"

There go the theatres !!!
As if the movie watching experience wasn't shifting from the cinema hall to the living room quickly enough thanks to increasing piracy, now Moser Baer have come up with this.
If what MB claim is achieved, then at least the prices of PVR and I-nox should come down a bit.
This can change a lot of ways.
The whole distinguishing factor as to why the crowd in such multiplexes is so good at present is largely due to the prices as it kept the cheap junta out. The decreasing quality in scenery will in turn keep out a lot of people who flock to the malls just to exercise their eyes. Traffic might reduce a great deal, enabling more parking space making Bangalore a more pleasureable place to live in once again. This in turn will attract a lot more people from outside and voila !!! The people ready to spend now will increase as a result of which the economy of the state would go up in turn causing an infaltion in prices. Hence, MB may hike their prices with the theatres soon to follow. We come back to square 1.
So, it really doesn't change anything.

Bowled over by the WIZARD


"Test cricket's greatest bowler Shane Warne announced his retirement from international competition Thursday, drawing the curtain on one of the most celebrated careers in the sport's history.
Saying he wanted to go out on top, the 37-year-old Australian leg-spinner with a world record 699 Test wickets revealed the two remaining Ashes Tests against England will be his last international matches. "

Heroes come and heroes go but legends are there to stay.
One such legend of my generation is Shane "the Wizard of Oz" Warne. Having grown up seeing him bamboozle batsmen from all over with his leg spinners, leg breaks, flippers etc., his retirement from the international cricket gives me such a big heartache. This year has seen too many sporting legends retire;Agassi, Schumacher, Zidane and now Warne.The cricketing world is surely losing one of its gems and I sincerely hope that ESPN Star can somehow bag him as a commentator at least.

Here s little video showing how magical the wizard's bowling was.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YDqn043XhQ8
It's a little compilation of Warne's best wickets.