Five selected for Variety Home Ing. Hall of Fame

Best To Buy Boss John Dunn, Electronic Devices Assn. prexy and Boss Gary Shapiro and Manufacturers of America are among the 2010 inductees in to the Variety Home Theatre Hall of Fame. Also entering the hall this season would be the "Harry Potter" film franchise and Hastings Entertainment prexy and Boss John Marmaduke. The 31st honours dinner gala in the Beverly Hillsides Hotel on 12 ,. 5 may benefit non profit organizations selected through the inductees. Dunn continues to be with Best To Buy for two-and-a-half decades, beginning as store clerk. Manufacturers of America is a leader within the vidgame biz since the development of the Manufacturers Entertainment System some two-and-a-half decades ago. Shapiro continues to be an advocate for top-def TV, three dimensional along with other home theatre improvements as mind from the trade org that signifies 2,000 electronic devices firms and produces the customer Electronics Show. The "Harry Potter" film series has produced $5.1 billion home based entertainment and vidgame items for Warner Bros., in addition to driving Blu-ray sales. Marmaduke has brought the Hastings Entertainment retail chain and it is forerunners since 1976. "These inductees demonstrate all that's exciting about home theatre because it moves from the flat experience to three dimensional, from the passive experience for an interactive adventure and from hard goods to some revenue-growing mixture of physical, digital, mobile along with other models that offer elevated convenience and value towards the entertainment consumer," stated Variety posting director Linda Buckley-Bruno. -- Variety Staff Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com