Blu Ray... Is it?

I have been waiting to hear this news story for a long time - probably from the time i started blogging - like anyone else in the world... Which format of DVD is gonna win?

Seems like Blu Ray is making its impact. What are the statistics? Sony, Fox & Disney are ardent fans of Blu Ray. Lately, Warner Bros attached themselves to Blu. With that goes all of HBO & New Line. Blockbuster has now its word for Blu Ray. The remaining majors are Universal & Paramount pictures including Dreamworks. With Universal also claiming that their exclusive commitment to Toshiba's HD DVD is ending, in no time Blu Ray will be all over.

Blu Ray better got to start working on customer friendly features on top of its heavy storage capability.

BOA...

A deal of USD Four Billion... that too for the mortgage agent Countrywide Financial Corp who are now down below after sub-prime. It all stops there for me - Why would Bank Of America which has built a fort of its own want to let open its door for this act & that too for a heavy price?

It's all my guess but where I see this going - To leverage the benefits of those huge number of home loan customer base which Countrywide is currently holding. That amounts to around 9 million is what I see. But how? Take Yahoo - Any new service they open can reliably go behind their existing huge customer base. Likewise, BOA has a new 9 million customers who would possibly start opening bank accounts & use other BOA services. May be that itself is a big boost.

With the already built in reputation which BOA has, more people will tend to move towards Countrywide. Ahead of it, BOA has to make sure Countrywide shifts culturally. That is like LIC offering any new service and people going behind them without even understanding like a a matter of ULIP - without even understanding the underlying market risk.

Disgusting... Yet Another Time

This is new year time and this is that time of the year when you get to hear from India that girls are molested in public. What a shame??

Is India really developed? Has girls got all freedom they want? People of one class think that they have all freedom to do what they want in public... The high class girls think they can booze as they wish, they can walk around on the roads in the nights as they like, they can dress to show off... And the other low class of guys who don't care about anything, they take advantage of such gals & molest them.

You get to hear a lot of news about foreigners getting raped & molested by Indians. How disgusting??

Bhutto's death

There is for sure something behind Mrs. Bhutto's death.

The very next day her body was allowed to be buried. That itself was kind of surprise for me. With so much of varying reports coming from different news channels, from Pakistan government, from doctors on the way she died things were more of confusing people rather than giving belief. But why weren't the doctors allowed to do postmortem?

Pakistan government openly blamed the terrorists Al-Queda but the terrorists group rejected the blame. The heights is people are ready to believe the words of terrorists but not the government.

Within 2 days after her death, her husband & son are ready to run the party?? People can be patriotic but can that overtake the so close personal loss emotions? I doubt especially for her son who is just another human doing his studies in Oxford...