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The news that cinemas are preparing to screen The Godfather in March to celebrate its 50th anniversary caught me by surprise. Not because the movie is getting another theatrical release – why not? it’s great – but because if Francis Ford Coppola’s gangster classic is turning fifty then… well, I must be getting near that too. The saying 'time flies when you're having fun' definitely seems to apply to home cinema. Technical innovations that in my head are fairly recent turn out to be aging gracefully – Blu-ray, for example, is now 16 years old. The new-fangled Ultra HD disc format is approaching its sixth birthday. The first 4K TV? It launched ten years ago. With this in mind, I wonder which of the tech treats announced at CES 2022 (see p20) will…