Random Scribbling

Last week saw couple of movies and some of them were really good and some of them we kind of okayish.

Midnight Run and My Cousin Vinny blew me away. These are excellent comedies. De Niro and Pesci are legends.

Then I saw The Rite. Every movie about exorcism cannot escape from reminding us of the classic The Exorcist. This movie too reminded that movie a lot but still was not as good as I expected. Especially towards the end it became highly predictable. If you want to get scared better go for Drag me to Hell.

Love in the time of Cholera was another movie which I saw. This movie though it has some poetic moments was a bit artificial at many places. For some reason the make up, the setting didnt seem very real. It reminded me that I m watching a drama rather than a movie. But still Javier Bardem gives a totally different performance when compared to No country for Old Men. In the latter he looked menacing but in this period romantic movie he convinced us with his performance of a love striken man.

Scribblings

Have you ever seen a Church or a small Hindu temple in a remote place during night time with a low voltage bulb throwing weak light?

When we pass by the place we see the door is open and the inside of the place will be in our vision for just couple of seconds.

If you are lucky you might notice someone inside sitting all alone.

This scene will generate lot of thoughts inside our mind. But the place will look so peaceful. For some unknown reasons a wave of mixed emotions will overwhelm you.

I know you are wondering WTH is this guy trying to convey. Its right, its very difficult to convey it in words.

Samsung UA46D6600

Yes another post on the new TV. This might be useful for lot of people who are searching for the problem I faced with this TV. I was moving files between hard disks and was trying to play the same in TV through its USB but the folders which were working in my old disc was not read when it was moved to the new disk. It was very frustrating.

Then I took googles help and luckily got the solution in the first result that appeared.

In case you are facing the same problem the solution is to reset the Tele to factory setting. This is achieved by pressing the exit key for 10 seconds.

The post that helped me is given below.

http://lt-lt.facebook.com/notes/vijay-phulwadhawa/samsung-40d5500rr-smart-tv-unable-to-read-folders-from-a-external-hdd-cannot-rea/2423440225954

Samsung UA46D6600WR

Gone are the days when we used to switch on the TV, sit back and relax. The television sets have become more complex and complex. Wanting to jump into the LED bandwagon I made the decision to buy Samsung UA46D6600WR.


The TV is promoted as SMART TV and it has so many features which I have not been able to fully understand and use. Recently my friend used the term DLNA when I explored more about that I found out the TV I had bought had the feature Samsung Allshare.

DLNA is one amazing concept where you can connect two wireless enabled devices without any intermediate router. But it is not easy to make the devices connect due to various security settings in the devices. To do this you need to search on adhoc wireless connections.

This TV was able to read a 1 TB disk which was partitioned as two 500 GB partitions but when I plugged in a 1 TB with no partitions it didnt recognize.

The TV has an optical out which was another new to me but it delivers only Dolby Digital and ignores any DTS audio.

Also the HDMI input also doesnt deliver Dolby Digital through optical out rather we have to connect the devices optical out to the TV receiver for Dolby.

The TV has a browser but it will test your patience to browse as it is very cumbersome to use the on screen keayboard with your remote. But I m sure in future we can see some excellent interfaces in this front.

The TV has numerous HDMI inputs and USB inputs.

The picture and sound quality is pretty amazing. But if we watch it from the side the picture becomes dull. The reflective panel is a put off but the design will enhance the style of your living room.

I m still learning new things about the TV.

The older generation looks at this TV as some untouchable device as it proves to be a complex system for them, which it is.

Get ready to attend coaching classes to operate TV.