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REDRAY PLAYER
April 24, 2013 · Blog

RED and Sony launches 4K Video Players REDRAY & FMP-X1 4K


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REDRAY PLAYER

REDRAY PLAYER

RED a company that makes Red cameras has launched REDRAY a true 4K media player with HFR 3D support.
Are we ready for it? Blu-ray has just recently gone mainstream and there are many people who don’t even own a HD TV. To play 4K content on REDRAY you need to buy a 4K display to go with it.

REDRAY players back view

REDRAY players back view

REDRAY features the ability to play 4K files as well as upscale HD files to Ultra High-Definition resolution (4096×2160). REDRAY connects to 4K displays using 1x 1.4 HDMI output or 4x HDMI 1.3 outputs, with an additional HDMI output for 7.1 channel audio (for HD displays, REDRAY uses 1x HDMI 1.3 output). REDRAY also supports 3D playback at high frame rates (48-60fps) — more than twice that of traditional HD plug-and-play 3D devices.
REDRAY has a built-in 1TB hard drive, SD cards a USB port, and an internal 1TB drive. And an Internet download option so lots of ways to get 4K content in there and store it.
This all sounds good but there are is a issues. The Redray Player will only playback 4K content if it is encoded in RED’s own RED format its can also read mp4 but only at 1080p or 720p.

 

Sony's FMP-X1 4K media player

Sony’s FMP-X1 4K media player

Sony has also launched its FMP-X1 4K Media Player and they are also launching a 4K video distribution service that will offers library of native 4K content not only from Sony Picture Entertainment, but also from other production houses.

REDRAY costs USD 1450 (roughly £945), more than twice as much as Sony’s FMP-X1 which has been given a price tag of USD 699 (around £455).

 

 

 

Whether the Red Ray player and sony’s FMP-X1 4K Media Player will have a same battle as Blu-ray and HDDVD? it remains to be seen.

REDRAY Specifications

DIMENSIONS

 316 × 61mm x 260 mm ( 12.4 × 2.4 × 10.2″ )

WEIGHT

 5.9 Lbs

MATERIAL

 Aluminium

OPERATING TEMPS

 Zero to 40 C

STORAGE TEMPS

 Minus 5 to 60C

NOTABLE FEATURES

 Network based 4K 3D Playback System.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

 Unique to RED, this product is the only available 4K resolution signal source for Ultra HD flat panel dispays and 4K projectors, may also be used for digital signage applcations to drive up to four 1080p displays.

RESOLUTION

 Up to 4096 × 2160 pixels, 2D or 3D

BIT-DEPTH (COLOR)

 YCbCr 12-bit 4:2:2 or RGB 8-bit 4:4:4

COLORIMETRY

 ITU-R BT.709

PROGRAM OUTPUT

 4K DCI, UltraHD, 1080p, 720p

PREVIEW OUTPUT

 1080p, 720p

MEDIA SECURITY

 REDCrypt™ digital media encryption

DRM OPTIONS

 ODEMAX™ digital rights management

REMOTE CONTROL

 IR, 802.11n, Ethernet

GENLOCK

 RS170A Tri-level Sync

PLAYBACK FRAME RATES

 24, 25, 30, 48, 50, 60 fps

DIGITAL MEDIA

 Internet download, SDCard or USB-2 flash media

VIDEO FILE FORMAT

 .RED (4K), .MP4 (1080p, 720p)

AUDIO FILE FORMAT

 .RED (up to 7.1 Ch) .MP4 (Stereo)

AUDIO OUTPUT

 Up to 7.1 channel LPCM, 24-bit 48Khz

OUTPUT CONNECTORS

 4 x HDMI 1.4 (Program), 2 x HDMI 1.3 (Preview and Audio)

STORAGE CAPACITY

 1TB Internal SATA Drive

POWER

 120 – 240V 50 – 60Hz A.C.

 

 

 

 

The four big Oscar winners of the night, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, and Christoph Waltz.
February 25, 2013 · Blog

Oscars 2013: list of winners and nominees in full


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Oscars host Seth MacFarlane opened the 85th Academy Awards, The 2013 Oscars ceremony was not as predictable, as i thought it was going to be. Life of Pi took four awards, including best director for Ang Lee, while Les Misérables and Argo won three, including best picture for Argo

The four big Oscar winners of the night, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, and Christoph Waltz.

The four big Oscar winners of the night, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, and Christoph Waltz.

winners in bold…

Best Picture

Beast of the Southern Wild
Zero Dark Thirty
Amour
Argo
Life of Pi
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Django Unchained

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Robert DeNiro – Silver Linings Playbook
Alan Arkin – Argo
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress

Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables
Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Amy Adams – The Master

Best Director

Life of Pi – Ang Lee
Amour – Michael Haneke
Lincoln – Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook – David O Russell
Beasts of the Southern Wild – Behn Zeitlin

Best Original Screenplay

John Gatins – Flight
Mark Boal – Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
Moonrise Kingdom – Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
Amour – Written by Michael Haneke

Best Adapted Screenplay

Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Chris Terrio – Argo
Tony Kushner – Lincoln
David O’Russell – Silver Linings PLaybook
David Magee – Life of Pi

Best Original Score

Before My Time – Chasing Ice, Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
Pi’s Lullaby – Life of Pi, Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
Suddenly – Les Miserable, Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublils
Everybody Needs a Best Friend – Ted, Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
Skyfall – from Skyfall – Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth

Best Foreign Language Film

Amour
NO
War Witch
A Royal Affair
Kon Tiki

Best Documentary Feature

5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man

Best Documentary Short Feature 

Inocente – Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Kings Point – Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine – Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
Open Heart – Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption – Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill

Best Short Film (Live Action)

Asad Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys – Sam French and Ariel Nasr
Curfew – Shawn Christensen
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) – Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
Henry – Yan England

Best Make-up and Hairstyling

Hitchcock – Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
Les Misérables – Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnells

Best Costume Design

Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables – Paco Delgado
Lincoln – Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror – Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood

Best Visual Effects

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
Life of Pi: Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
Marvel’s The Avengers – Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
Prometheus – Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
Snow White and the Huntsman – Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson

Best Cinematography

Django Unchained – Robert Richardson
Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey
Lincoln – Janusz Kaminski
Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda
Skyfall – Roger Deakins

Best Animated Feature Film

Frankenweenie
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck it Ralph
ParaNorman
Brave

Best Short Film (Animated)

Adam and Dog – Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole – PES
Head over Heels – Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare” David Silverman
Paperman – John Kahrs

Oscar Awards 2013 Show Highlights

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January 10, 2013 · Blog

Be Here Now


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Once in a while you find a beautiful gem like this song, it fills my soul with peace and love.
this song will forever be with me.

Thanks Ray

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Be Here Now - Ray LaMontagne

Don’t let your mind get weary and confused

Your will be still, don’t try
Don’t let your heart get heavy child
Inside you there’s a strength that liesDon’t let your soul get lonely child
It’s only time, it will go by
Don’t look for love in faces, places
It’s in you, that’s where you’ll find kindnessBe here now, here now
Be here now, here nowDon’t lose your faith in me
And I will try not to lose faith in you
Don’t put your trust in walls
‘Cause walls will only crush you when they fallBe here now, here now
Be here now, here now

House was Robbed Glasgow new years
January 4, 2013 · Blog, Uncategorized

Welcome 2013: got robbed on last day of the year


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Well, this is the first chance I’ve had to post about this, because my Laptop were stolen and so I haven’t been able to write about it.

I was in Glasgow, Scotland for New year, and was staying at Ross’s house. on 31st Dec we  all went out for lunch in the afternoon and came back to find his neighbours and his apartment was broken into and almost everything was robbed. I lost my Macbook Pro (with all recent work done) my HTC sensation smart phone, my friend lost his brand new Canon 5D Mk3 DSLR camera that he just bought last week after saving for almost a year and many other electronic stuff including most his backup harddrive with all the work over the years.

Obviously, whoever did this had kept watch on the house because were out for only 2 hrs and they did this in the afternoon.

I’m trying to be upbeat about it, as we cant really do anything about it now but learn a good lesson about why insurance is very important.

I feel really bad for Ross, they also took Amands’s bag with her bank card and they also tried to ring the bank and impersonate bank as her so they could access the card.

I have decided now to not think too-much about and start the new year with a fresh and much secure approach as 2012 is past and 2013 is just ahead.

While 2012 was productive, I am looking forward to a much more productive 2013. Wishing all an incredibly positive 2013! . I hope the universe makes some of your dreams come true this year, and that you’re successful in overcoming some of your own challenges.

This new years evening  has been shocking, but I can find some positives to these negative situation.

I wish everyone  A Healthy, Happy, Safe, Peaceful, Productive, Creative, and Prosperous New Year 2013

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December 3, 2012 · Blog

End of Movember 2012 : Vintage Mustaches


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Movember is finally finished and hope you have killed your moustaches by now.

I personally don’t really like moustache on me and will never have them, I don’t mind them but when your flat mate all of sudden has this massive bush on his lips for 24/7 it can get a bit annoying.

I think with a moustache you can look either of these two

 1. English gentlemen     

  2. 70′s Porn star

Most of my friends  who sprouted bush on their lips for Movember, looked like  70′s Porn star.

Although i dislike moustaches, I do think movember is a great cause. Since its  beginnings in Melbourne Australia, Movember has become a truly global movement inspiring more than 1 Millions of men to sprout moustache  to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer.

Movember is an annual, month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of prostate cancer and other male cancer and associated charities.

I found  The Library of Congress’ photostream on ‘Flicker’ that hold More than 17,000 historic photos, and some of them have these great moustaches.

So here are some of my  personal favourites.

 

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  • Luo Baogen
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November 27, 2012 · Blog

Motorway built around house in China


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Elderly Chinese couple Luo Baogen and his wife refused to leave their flat so the block could be knocked down to make way for a motorway – so local officials in Xiazhangyang village built the road around it.

Luos say the government offer of 260,000 yuan  plus two small building sites was not enough to cover the several hundreds of thousands of yuan he  had spent in renovating the building.

This The road leads to Wenling Railway Station, and it has yet to be opened. Once it does, they can expect a traffic driving day and night.

Even this sounds very strange for but this phenomenon is very common, and These structures are known as nail houses.
apparently Chinese householders who stand up to developers are known as “nails” – because they stick and are hard to get out. and Chinese  law makes it illegal to demolish a property by force without an agreement, so the government  left enough retaining walls to keep the structure standing. This allows the elderly couple  to continue living there.

 

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November 11, 2012 · Blog

My Birthday 11.11.2012: The Year Turns Round Again


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I’ve accomplished a lot in a year, and 2012 has been an amazing year for me but this November has been even more special for me.

I became uncle to a very cute baby girl on 1st Nov, my film got screened at Denver Film Festival, I am producing my 1st 1 hr TV show and Barack Obama got re-elected. \o/

Although I have been constantly working, I have been lucky enough to have had managed some amazing adventures last year  around my  heavy work schedule.

Thanks for the lovely cards and very slick new iPad Mini 32GB, I do feel very very special to be surrounded with some very sweet people in my life.

Thank you for a great year and I look forward to seeing what the next year brings together!

MY FAMILY and FRIENDS.
I owe everything I have to you.

I would also like to share a very beautiful and meaningful song from The National Theatre’s production War Horse.

I havent seen the War Horse  in theater yet but brilliant production company I have recently started working for has filmed a commercial for it and it has this beautiful song, with beautiful lyrics.

Commercial for War Horse

The full song ‘The Year Turns Round Again’ from War Horse

A wager, a hat full of guinnies,
against all their songs you can sing,
but some day you’ll love
and the next day you’ll lose
and winter will turn into spring
and the snow falls, the wind calls
the year turns round again
and like barley corn who rose from the grain
a new year will rise up again
and there will come a time of great plenty
a time of good harvest and son
till then put your trust in tomorrow my friend
for yesterdays over and gone
Ploughed, sown, weat (or weed) and mown
the year turns round again
and like barley corn who rose from the grain (could be grave)
a new year will rise up again
a feeling arise, a gleam in her eyes
and the year turns ound again
and like barley corn who rose from the grain (could be grave)
a new year will rise up again

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November 1, 2012 · Blog

I am uncle again: Welcome baby!!!


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As of 01/11/12  I am now an uncle again!!  Congratulations Sister and my bro-in-law, love you all. My heart just made space for another person in my life. My sister had a baby Girl!  Welcome baby  :D

I hope she likes the card i made for her.

My niece was born early this morning. I haven’t gotten a chance to see her, but from what I’ve heard from (very excited and happy) grand mother is that , both my sister and the baby are doing just fine. now Aarchi is going to have a little sister to play with.

baby girl shares her birthday with one of the most beautiful women in the world Aishwarya Rai, and i hope she becomes as beautiful, Classy and powerful as Aish.

don’t think Sister and my bro-in-law have any Names planned for her, so i will suggest few names, i guess it has to start with A :)

I’m so excited about it that I had to share it with everyone, Just my bit of happy news.

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 13 (GOES-13) captured this natural-color image of Hurricane Sandy
October 29, 2012 · Blog

Hurricane Sandy: Frankenstorm LIVE Coverage


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Hurricane Sandy continues to move northward, and is projected to slam into the eastern seaboard on Monday evening.

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers had been ordered to evacuate and the city’s mass transit system was shut down on Sunday as officials braced for storm surges of up to 11 feet from approaching Hurricane Sandy.


LIVE Hurricane Sandy Coverage – The Weather Channel

Hurricane Sandy is a massive, late-season tropical cyclone that has affected Jamaica, Cuba, The Bahamas, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States, and is currently threatening the East Coast of the United States and Eastern Canada. The 18th tropical cyclone, 18th named storm, and 10th hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy developed from an elongated tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22. It became a tropical depression, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to a tropical storm six hours later. Sandy moved slowly northward toward the Greater Antilles and gradually strengthened.

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 13 (GOES-13) captured this natural-color image of Hurricane Sandy

Is this Hurricane Sandy the product of global warming? as per the Telegraph blog The problem with hurricanes and is that there hasn’t been  enough record in the past so it is difficult to confirm any trend. Maybe in another 20-30  years we’ll know enough data about hurricane to know a trend where global warming was responsible for an increase in the strengths of tropical storms.

I hope that people will draw a lesson from this, I take this as a warning from Mother Nature. Earth will bounce back, it has done this many times in the past but humans might not be able to.

Live twitter updates for Sandy

October 3, 2012 · Blog, Portfolio

Crystalline: Bikini Fashion Film


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amazing Beach Wear Fashion Shoot we produced for model Tunde Martha at Brighton Beach.
Model : Tunde Martha
Photographer : Abhishek Khorgade
Video : Parag Sankhe

Make up : Ponti
Stylist : Henna Parimoo
Assistant Photographer : Digpal Singh

Production Company: Square Elephant Productions

Location: Brighton

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