Dear Anil, I have never visited outside India so can't comment on Channels of England and Australia. But What I can say is that, These are the countries which give birth to technologies and these technologies come to India after 5-10years (Example 3G phone). So You will have to wait 5-10Years from the time u have felt smashing sound in England and Australia, to feel it in India. Here its tough to get 7.1 sound for movie channel, Sports will be secondary point of up gradation. What can be done is that Record a Live Sport, then in a sound studio insert the 5.1 Sound created separately Ex for a 6 by Sachin, A Zoooo sound should come 1 by one from all speakers giving the feel that the ball is going far and far. But that will be artificial and funny of-course.
----------
R u planning to buy AVR?????