BSNL EVDO

India has 3G Wireless Broadband (with free all India Roaming) for almost 2 years by now. Earlier (or even now), Internet has been looked as tool that can be accessed from a corner of the room, that ideology, broke when wireless router came in, 3G Wireless Broadband extends wireless Broadband beyond just internet hotspots.

I have been with Reliance Netconnect for an year. Yesterday, I switched my connection to BSNL EVDO Data Connection. Here is the My Speed Test Result of BSNL EVDO from Urapakkam.

SpeedTest BSNL EVDO Ping Test BSNL EVDO

Unlike the Wired Connection, Speed Test Result of Wireless Broadband, varies based on proximity to Tower and position of USB Device. Comparing to my earlier Reliance Netconnect, BSNL Speed is relatively Slower (But not the worst) While More Value for money, than Netconnect.

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Day After Tomorrow

After watching the movie, “Day After Tommorrow” for almost an hour, I told Pandian not to go to office on day after tommorrow.

He asked me “why? Are you Nutz?. Do you think world is going to end day after tomorrow?”.

I said “Buddy! I am not so crazy as you, to think like that. I just wanted to remind you that day after tommorrow is Krishna Jayanthi, which is a national holiday”

Pandian thought for a second about his misunderstanding, not wanted to accept his defeat (in war of words) immediately said ” Why the hell Krishna Jayanthi is a National Holiday, Did Krishna Bought Independence as Gandhi did?”

Immediately came the reply, “First tell me Why the Gandhi Jayanthi is National Holiday, Is Gandhi, a God (Fish/Lion) who took ten avatars to save the man Kind?”

Pandian started crying “Ayyo Saami! Aaala Vidu! Govindha GooooVindha”

While Me, “Happy” even more than Gandhi/Krishna as they themselves didnt had holiday when they were alive :)

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Hwaan Yeeng!!!

Hi Everyone,

Hwaan Yeeng!! (Its a Chinese Word which means Welcome).

Please dont come to the conclusion that I am learning Chinese, Itz Just that I wanted to copy the  style of Director’s Shankar’s Blog Ubhayakusalobhari.

Most of you all, have heard about Kerala House Boat.

Yes. Its one the favorite place for tourist allover the world, especially for honeymoon and leisure trips.

Last year, I had a thrill and excitement to enjoy the House Boat in Vembanad lake.  I am happy and proud of being there in Kerala(Alapuzha), which did a great job in several movies Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya :) .

Here goes the photo collection on it. Give a quick rest to your eyes and feel the 3D Depth in the photo.

C U again ASAP

Yours
Arun

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Does Color Flickers in Your TV?

Three weeks back, I bought a brand new DVD player, Onida DFX-7410.  Using AV1 port(RCA), I connected the DVD player to TV(SAMSUNG CS21M50MEELXTL) and when a DVD was played, everything was perfect, except for the color. The color was flickering.

At first, I give my thought, over the probable causes of this fault. It has to be one of the following.

  1. Faulty DVD Disc
    This was ruled out,when I tried with several other DVD Discs. All the DVDs faces the same pattern of color Flicker.
  2. Faulty Video Cable / AV Port of DVD Player
    This again was ruled out, when I took the DVD player to my neighbour’s home and played the DVD. There, the picture is fine without any color flicker.
  3. Faulty AV Port of TV
    This was the last one in the list, I doubted on this, as the TV was 2-3 years old.
    The TV has 3 AV Ports: AV1, AV2 and Alternate RCA port for AV1. I tried connecting the AV cable to each of the three RCA ports, the same color flicker issue persists. So, I assumed the common circuit for all the AV port needs servicing.
    But this cause was ruled out when I connected my Camera Sony Cybershot DSC W300 to the TV using AV1 port, the Picture is brilliantly clear.
  4. What’s that? Its DVD Format (NTSC/PAL)
    So there is something, that causes the issue when the DVD player is connected to the Samsung TV.

    Today, I googled to check about cause of the TV color flicker, I came to the yahoo Answers. Immediately, I switched on the DVD player/TV. I was looking for NTSC/PAL in TV/DVD Player ‘Settings”. I couldn’t find any option in TV, but in DVD player, there is a dedicated button ‘N/P’. I toggled it from PAL to NTSC, that resolves color flicker issue.

    So What really happened was,
    DVD Disc that I have played is of Format NTSC, while my TV is PAL one. My DVD Player needs to be set as NTSC to read the NTSC disc and convert the video to PAL so that my TV can understand.
    In the case of my nieghbour, His TV is an pseudo Systems, it can automatically handle PAL/NTSC, that explains why it worked in his home without setting up NTSC mode.

    Though India is the country where PAL is the Defacto standard, It doesn’t matter when it comes to DVDs. What really matters is that DVD format NTSC/PAL and DVD Region codes.

Check this out for more reference.
http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Articles/PALvsNTSC/PALvsNTSC.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

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