Victory for people, shame to Tatasky

[QUOTE=Sirx Blue;8184607]NEW DELHI: ESPN-Star India has won its first legal battle against Tata Sky. The DTH service provider has assured the Delhi High Court that it will restore ESPN-Star’s sports bouquet on its platform in a phased manner in the next 12 days.

As per ESPN Software India counsel Nanji Ganpathy, the commercial agreement between the DTH provider and the sports broadcaster expired on March 15. Following this, Tata Sky had moved to TDSAT, which directed ESPN-Star not to disconnect its signals from the platform.

This then resulted in ESPN Software India filing a petition in the Delhi HC on May 26, which said that till TDSAT disposes the case, ESPN should not disconnect its channels on Tata Sky.

“However, Tata Sky removed the three channels from its platform and informed subscribers that they were free to opt for the three channels of ESPN,” said Mr Ganpathy. He added that ESPN filed a contempt petition before the Delhi HC.

The court said that the latter appeared to have violated the court’s orders. “Tata Sky’s counsel informed the court that the company would start restoring the three ESPN channels in a phased manner in the next 12 days,” said Mr Ganpathy. Tata Sky MD Vikram Kaushik said that he was not aware about the day’s proceeding.[/QUOTE]


I feel so good.
Wondering what's going to happen for the days they already deducted my money as I had to subscribe to these packages on the 1st.

Star's newspaper article against tatasky

I am glad star came out with the newspaper article.Proves my point that Tatasky is really duping people.

Tata Sky's new packages no Jingalala!

This probably had to happen some day. Tatasky comes up with its new packages starting today, 1st of june'2008. Cleverly disguised and segregated packages to make you spend much much more than your normal monthly package.

The tag line for tatasky says "Monthly Subscription Prices Reduced".In reality, the prices gets increased by almost 20%. Consider this :

1. The new Super Saver Pack which earlier used to be Rs. 300 has now been reduced to Rs 260 per month. But consider the channels it drops : almost all sports channels, except of course DD Sports and BBC channels.

2. Now here's the catch . The sports channels it dropped are certain to be addd by almost everyone having tatasky. With so much cricket and Euro 2008 coming up, no one's going to miss on the sports channels. So you go ahead and get your self "Sports Platinum Pack, which has been priced at Rs. 40 per month. So Rs. 260 and Rs. 40 = Rs. 300 and you are back to your earlier monthly price.

3. But wait, that's not all. The sports package , quite absurdly, leaves out Ten Sports. So all you WWE fans and fans of Spanish football and all, will have to go ahead and get this package as well.The package is priced Rs. 15 per month, so you now pay Rs. 15 more than what you used to.

4. This still leaves out your BBC channels. Now I am not sure how many of you really watch BBC, but I do. BBC Entertainment serials like My family, My Hero, Keeping up Apperances, Hustle, Doctor Who are all my must watch serials. Then BBC news is probably the only source for quality news for me because these days all Indian news channels believe Raju Srivastava's comedy and news on serials are the best news one has got to see. So , here I go ahead and book this package as well, which is now priced at Rs. 30 per month. So monthly billing now goes to Rs. 345.

5. Also consider the fact that I have already subscribed to Sports Gold Pack (only the Neo Channels there) at Rs. 30 per month because most of the cricket matches played in India comes on it, my monthly outing will now be Rs. 375.

This certainly does not make me go Jingalala. A Rs. 75 increase in my budget per month, makes me really miss my old cable wallah, which just kept showing all new channles without ever increasing the monthly price. And to think , that even after paying that high a monthly rent, I'd be still missing a whole bunch of channels like Bindass, 9X, Zoom, NDTV Imagine, World Movies, etc, because you guessed it right, this package "Lifestyle Gold Pack" costs Rs. 30 per month as well.

If this continues, I am sure we'll soon be getting a Star plus package, a sony package, a zee package and so on .... all in the name of giving you choices to pick your monthly spending, all the while creating a big hole in your pocket.

My iphone

I was desperate to get an iphone ever since I first saw it in the Palika bazar, but the uncertainty of its working in India stopped me from buying it. But as a marriage present , my brother got it for me while coming from US. as soon as I was free from marriage chores, I set down searching google for the unlock methods. Was glad to find that there's a software called ziphone (ver3.0) which automatically does it.Took me 5 min or so and the phone was unlocked and I am now using it with my vodafone sim card. The phone is really wonderful and I must say the real fun of using it is only when you have a good EDGE connection or wi-fi network.

Xoom.com

A few months back I was a worried man. Living in India, I had no other option of receiving money directly from Paypal to my bank account. Searching Google and a lot other forums finally led me to xoom.com. It's a really nice service ,which for a nominal fee, transfers money from paypal directly to the bank account. It also has got a good customer support as most of the times they are able to solve my queries.

10,000 B.C. Movie Review

Here's the first day first show review for the movie :

I probably saw the trailer for the movie in Dec'2007 and had my mind set on watching it first day first show since then. I imagined a movie based in 10,000 B.C. with lots of fights and high quality graphics . The movie that I saw today was disappointing-to say the least.It's not even within a 1000 km's of what I imagined.The director went through LOTR, The Matrix, 300, Apocalypto Now and several other movies and decided to make one single film out of it.

The story starts with a civilization living in some snowy mountains.Oh well, actually the story starts with a narrator's voice which is so gloomy and bad that you'd soon start to feel that this is not the movie you imagined. Ok, so back to the story. This civilization has a nanny , like the Oracle from Matrix movies, who can see the future . See sees four legged demons coming to destroy the village, and when they really come, I thought here we go with the excitement. I wondered if next we'd see some real demons or probably even the saber tooth tigers shown on the posters for the movie. The excitement was short lived as soon you get to know that the demons are nothing , but normal men on horses . For almost half the movie you don't know why did they attack the civilization and took about 15 of the helpless people, including the heroes love, as prisoners.The only thing worth seeing in this movie comes in this first half when the men chase several mammoths.But then , that's it.

The middle of the movie shows you the chase by the hero to get his love back. The punch line for the movie says " It takes a Hero to change the world ". God knows which world the hero was trying to save , as through out the movie the only thing the hero seemed interested in was getting back his love. The middle portion does give you an ostrich type bird attacking the hero's group scene and all, but the director fails to provide any excitement. The widely publicized scene of the Saber toothed tiger with the hero was a damp squib as they don't fight but make friends. Even the animation for the tiger was very unreal and coming from the people who made Independence Day, this was a huge letdown. Then come s the interval and one feels that probably the director has the best hidden for the end.

The end shows you a scene straight out of LOTR finale. Only that it was no where as magnificent as the original. We do get to hear the bad guy finally who's almost 8 feet's tall and one gets the feeling that the end can be an interesting one. What happens in the end is as mediocre as the entire film. The Hero picks up his spear and launches it at the big baddy, the spear goes through the bad guy's body and the bad guy's dead. No fight, no special effects, just dead. It was at this point that I wanted to scream and shout and say why did the director choose those magnificent scenes for the trailers, why did he not portray what the movie actually was . Probably like me, he too never understood what the movie was actually for!

While coming out of the theater, one of my friends said it'd be nice to see a scary movie type spoof of this movie, and I just wondered if this wasn't already a spoof movie on LOTR, Matrix, 300 and others. Better watch the trailers 20 times, you'd still feel happier!

GTA San Andreas!

I was waiting to play this game for so long and after a painfully long install,when I ran it on shitty Vista, I got a blank screen after the loading screen and in came the error "GTA_SA.exe has stopped working". It was so frustrating and I spent like two days finding a solution.
Well the solution is fairly easy though. When I installed GTA, it got installed in the third folder ...meaning folder inside a folder inside a folder and then inside the GTA folder. So solution is just to copy the actual game folder from that location to your windows drive/program files folder and it'll start working.