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When home cinema was in its infancy, the idea of self-updating hardware would have seemed like the stuff of science-fiction. Yet in 2018 evolving products are the norm – TVs, projectors, Blu-ray players and AV receivers are all 'net-connected, and this allows manufacturers to push firmware updates to introduce new features or squish operational bugs. Generally this is good for the end user. But it does mean there's a fluidity about home cinema kit that never used to exist. In this issue we look at a Sony 4K Blu-ray player (p60) that will be updated to support Dolby Vision in the Summer, a Marantz receiver (p42) due HDMI feature upgrades any time now, and a Google smart speaker (p68) that will undoubtedly undergo extensive functionality tweaks during its lifetime. Exciting,…
