Entertainment Corner

WE know you want to make the most of your new HD-ready flat screen TV and spanking new home cinema system, but there is no point in shelling out for a new Blu Ray movie, when you can just rent them instead.

The leading online DVD rental services already have large selections of Blu-ray Discs in stock. Some UK DVD rental comparison sites will even list the number of Blu Ray titles you can rent from the various DVD rental sites.

A Blu-ray Disc is expensive to buy, roughly four times what you would pay for a standard DVD, but if you rent online you will pay nothing extra for the considerable benefits the Blu-ray Disc offers, including extraordinarily detailed images, amazing colour and crisper sound than ever before.

Five times the detail

To play Blu-ray Discs you need a Blu-ray compatible DVD player or Playstation 3, and a HDTV to give you the most effective quality.

Blue laser technology porvides up to 50 GB of storage space, five times the capacity of a normal DVD giving 9 hours of HD (high definition) video or 23 hours of SD (standard definition).

HD gives five times the clarity of standard definition and allows you to watch your favourite blockbusters at home with the same dynamic effect and explosive sound you would get in a cinema.

It seems that, in future, exciting features will include the ability to watch live broadcasts of special events, the ability to update content via an internet connection and also download extras.

The major film studios – Disney, Warner, MGM and Fox – are starting to launch Blu-ray Discs simultaneously with Standard Definition DVDs but generally the Blu-ray films fall in the category of popular thrillers, adventure or action.  Read more...

If you are hunting around to find the best community to watch movies online, and download movies, then Movies Planet will the answer for your hunt. It is obvious that, world is most partially filled with movie buffs around and of course entertaining them is a great deal of pleasure as well. Now with the friendliness of the internet, watching free movies on the internet possible and of course you never have to spare any penny to get holed with the bags of fun and entertainment. Movies Planet is an excellent movie network that gives you regular updates of the latest movies and you can even watch your favorite episodes, star shows, and various other TV shows.

If you are an ardent movies buff and desire to know about your favorite star’s biography, then explore Movies Planet right today. You can easily find the latest movies page, and read through your favorite star’s biographies and as well read through the movie news. Any one who desires to participate in the everyday movie activities can set up their personal profile too. On doing so, you can rate the films and as well get a chance to interconnect with the movie fans and even add streaming links. As a real fact, Movies Planet is a domain that gives you absolute fun and recreation.

With plenty of categories listed, you can check through your favorite list and watch movies online. The movie categories including animation, adventure, documentary, drama, biography, comedy and several other more – you can enjoy watching those free movies with ease and comfort from your home. If you desire to give an active participation and discuss about the latest movie of your favorite star, then the FORUM will feature you with your personal needs. As usually known, FORUM is one of the best discussion place where you can discuss about the latest trends, hot topics and even chit chat with your network friends.  Read more...

Atrocities Against Women: Indian Perspective

Kshama Sen

Head of the Department: Political Science

L.R.College,India.

                   The constitution of India enjoins upon every citizen the duty to “renounce any practice derogatory of the dignity of women”. The need to incorporate the injunction into Indian constitution arose due to the prevailing atmosphere in which the women were denied their place in family and in society and subjected to humiliation, which reduced them to a position inferior to men.

                   The incidence of crime is rising at a very fast rate in our country and crime against women is no exception. Our constitution provides equality of sexes. Despite the constitutional provisions we continue to have inequality and women are treated as inferior and subservient beings. In all spheres of life, women are denied the basic right to live with dignity. Inspite of the legal safeguards provided for women, atrocities against women continue unabated in our country. Violence against women manifests itself as rape, molestation, stripping, eve-teasing, kidnapping and abduction, aminocentisis (killing of female foetus in the womb) and the like. Domestic violence includes wife beating, dowry harassment, dowry deaths, and cruelty to women driving them to commit suicide, female infanticide and sati and so on.

                   Women are oppressed in two ways: –                                                          (a) Oppression within the family,

                   (b) Oppression outside the family.  Read more...

Ever since the Nintendo Wii video game console was introduced in the global market it has taken the world by storm. In the beginning Microsoft Xbox 360 managed to sell more units than Nintendo Wii in the month of September, Nintendo Wii soon overtook Microsoft to reach the top spot for the number of units sold.

Nintendo overtook Microsoft in October when 519,000 units of the game console were sold while Microsoft managed to sell only 366,000 units.

However in terms of revenue Microsoft has overtaken Nintendo Wii. Microsoft earned $354 million in revenue from sales of its video game console while Nintendo managed to earn $246 million for its Wii model and $116 million for its PS3 model.

The third major competitor Sony has also done exceptionally well for itself as it launched newer models. On the other hand the Nintendo Wii has done exceptionally well as it faces supply problems from different quarters of the world.

Though the company should be proud that demand is more than supply it is trying to close the gap by finding out more ways than one to increase considerable from their current capacity of manufacturing 1.8 million units per month.

The Nintendo Wii is becoming a real competitor to the seventh generation gaming systems like Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3. The Nintendo Wii was introduced as the successor of Nintendo GameCube. The game console has some great features which has helped it reach the number one spot.

The console has a wireless controller (which is powerful) as well as Wii remote that can be held in the hand and used as a pointing device. This device can detect acceleration in three dimensions making your gaming experience as realistic as possible. Through the WiiConnect24 you are able to receive updates over the internet when the console is in standby mode.  Read more...

As long as there have been movies, there have been B movies.  Traditionally low-budget, barely publicized affairs, B movies are usually genre films (sci-fi, Western, horror, etc.) featuring actors of little or no repute, often made by small specialty studios and cranked out as if on an assembly line. 

 Although lesser features, early B movies were popular, profitable, and produced their own separate group of stars, different than the major actors of the day. They also provided an entry into Hollywood for many European directors. Back in the Golden Age, a night at the movies usually consisted of a newsreel, an episode of a serial (such as Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers), several cartoons and a double feature of a B movie and the main feature—an “A movie.” B movies were the first movie and always considered the less important film.

 In the 1930’s, the predominant B movie genre was the Western.  In the ‘40s, gangster movies and films noir became popular.  In the ’50s, with the rise of rock and roll, the cold war, and the teenager as a social force, B movies exploded into a diverse range of areas: rock and roll flicks, juvenile delinquent and hot rod melodramas, sci-fi/horror pastiches with Red Scare overtones, and foreign films dubbed into English (e.g., the Japanese Godzilla, the Italian Hercules).

 The ‘60s B movies saw the rise of the Hammer Films from Britain, the “beach movies” with Frankie and Annette and company, the Elvis movies (which, although they starred the most famous singer in the world, were decidedly low-quality productions), Russ Meyer’s nudie cuties, and Roger Corman’s many low-budget masterpieces. Also, the radical social changes of the ‘60s were reflected in the B films of the day long before they made it to the “legitimate” films.  Of course, the most famous example would be Easy Rider.   Read more...