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HOME THEATRE This year has been responsible for taking the HD market a lot further than it has ever been. Pretty much every household trading in their CRT televisions for flat panels (thanks to the drop in LCD panel prices), which in turn has got them to get rid of those RCA cables and bring in the neat HDMI cables. LCD technology has finally got itself into a position worthy enough to challenge plasma. In fact, with the coming of LED-lit LCD televisions, plasma is now in dire need for a revolution. Probably the most effective development that has taken place is the coming of Blu-rays. We Indians have always taken our sweet time to get into newer technologies, but with Blu-rays, that sweet time has become a lot shorter. With BIG Videos doing their very best to get as many Blu-rays into the Indian market as they possibly can, DVDs have already started getting the cold shoulder from our movie-watching population. If you were to read our AV MAX issues starting from Jan 2009 to Nov 2009, you’d notice the rise in Blu-ray test material we’ve been using for home-theatre packages and systems. We managed to really milk the testing products for what they’re worth and hope that these awards will get the manufacturers to push themselves just a little further for the coming year of ‘Pure HD’.
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