New Delhi, May 17 -- You probably haven't heard of Lumio, and I wouldn't blame you one bit. The brand, whose name is a portmanteau of 'lumens' (a measure of brightness) and 'I/O' (Input Output), is a new face in the Indian consumer tech space. Behind Lumio is the less snazzy-sounding Circuit House Technologies, a motley crew of very familiar faces-mostly ex-Xiaomi folks who made Xiaomi TVs a household name-that have come together to do home entertainment right.

Both their debutant products, the QLED Vision 7 and the flagship Mini-LED Vision 9, aim their crosshairs on the big guns in the segment, TVs that Lumio claims are part of a 'slow TV epidemic'-slow to boot, slow to navigate and slow to fire up apps. Yet, does Lumio shake things up ...