Sahil Bhalla

A T20 Africa Cup launching highlights the missed opportunity of England opposing a European equivalent. England have historically been behind the curve again and again on globalising the game, hampering cricket's growth. This feels like yet another example

I am using WHOOP for a while now. Earlier I didn't like the product, and I was about to cancel the membership but then I thought lets try it closely for 2 weeks. Eating dinner 4 hours before bed time improved my HRV a lot and it improved further when I walked before bed. + the metrics of recovery helps a lot to train accordingly. Now this device isn't for someone who don't like to play with data. But if you like to play with data and can shell 24k per year, it is worth. Many of clients are using it as well and it helps me to coach them better and it helped them to get serious about their sleep routine and recovery metrics. The cons: - It doesn't show live data, if you are planning to go for a run thinking whoop will help, you will have to carry phone screen with you. Use garmin or apple watch if you like to run without phone. - I have lost its charger 3 times in a year because I am used to charging my apple watch daily and this requires charge once in 2 weeks. But this device is much better than those cheap chinese white labelled knock offs with worse software ever I have seen.

can’t wait to brag to some teenager whose favourite movie is project hail mary in like 40 years time that i saw it on opening weekend in IMAX, gonna pull out the “like you just HAD to be there”

Me (to Gen gamma kids in 2060s): “You heard it right kids… I still remember clearly, way back in 2026 when Dhurandhar, the biggest hindi movie ever was running in cinemas, your Tyagi uncle, still young, went to Delhi and watched it in a packed IMAX audi, and made a core memory.”

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them. You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from. One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream. Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers. Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid. The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

Subtitles > Dubs. Agree or disagree?

The next innovation in cricket might be boundary ropes that lit up on contact

where can I donate so that India gets a true 70mm imax screen NOW