Home Cinema Choice

Home Cinema Choice is the UK's best-selling home cinema enthusiasts magazine. Every issue features news and reviews of the latest home cinema equipment, from amplifiers, receivers, processors and power amps, to DVD recorders, speakers, projectors and flat panel TVs. Home Cinema Choice currently publishes 11 issues a year but reserves the right to change the number of issues in an annual term.

Home Cinema Choice

Welcome

CONTRIBUTORS

Retro bass • M&K Sound Anniversary Volkswoofer ➜ mksound.com

OLED TV stands out • Loewe Inspire dr + ➜ www.loewe.tv

Freely adds TV partners • Panasonic, Sharp, Metz and Toshiba sign up for free-to-air IPTV

Playlist… • What Team HCC has been watching this month

At the 'plex… • Heading out to see a flick? Catch these this month

Totally Klipsch? Not quite • Flexus soundbar system developed with assistance from Onkyo

Mitchell & Brown goes big • 85in and 75in sets added to its affordable flatscreen roster

Back in time • Monitor Audio Studio 89 ➜ www.monitoraudio.com

Press play • Discs spinning your way in the coming month…

KEF opens Music Gallery • Immersive home cinema, high-end hi-fi and a damn fine cup of coffee

News x10 • This month’s top 10 news stories in handy, bite-sized chunks…

Premiere • What’s happening in the world of TV and film…

'Can you make it epic?' • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ➜ Warner Bros. ➜ 4K Blu-ray

AV road trip #06 • The UK’s network of custom installers, retailers and dealers keeps our home cinema hobby ticking over. This issue, Dan Sait visits Sevenoaks Sound & Vision’s store in Witham, Essex

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Inside Samsung’s Audio Lab • Samsung invited Steve May into its groundbreaking Californian audio facility, where old-school sound principles meet cutting-edge research and development

Onyx Cinema • Is Samsung’s LED display the future of cinema?

Monkey business! • With latest instalment Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes coming soon to 4K Blu-ray, Anton van Beek gets to grips with this most unlikely of long-running Hollywood franchises…

'WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE ME-TOO PRODUCTS' • Mark Craven talks to Perlisten’s Erik Wiederholtz about the company’s newest subwoofers, automated EQ, and building speakers for submarines…

Calibration satisfaction • Dan Sait drools over an AV room from across the pond with 9.4.4-channel JBL Synthesis sound fine-tuned by Dirac

REVIEWS

Taking it to the max • Hisense’s Laser TVs, which combine ultra-short-throw projectors with ambient light rejecting screens, let buyers recreate cinema-scaled experiences in their living rooms without having to cough up tens of thousands of pounds. The 100E7NQ Pro we're looking at here, on the other hand, is a projector-free zone. This is a 'true' panel-based LCD TV that just happens to be really, really big. Without being really, really expensive.

SP25 Prisma is a smooth mover • Swedish audio company Primare likes to bandy around the words 'lagom' and 'hygge', the former translating to 'just right' and the latter signifying contentment and generally chilling out. Maybe this explains why its new AV processor has taken so long to arrive.

Step-down set still impresses • While Samsung’s flagship OLED TVs for 2024, the unprecedentedly bright S95D range, are the most flat-out spectacular OLED TVs I've ever seen, they're not cheap. At £2,999, in fact, the QE65S95D is one of the most expensive 65in TVs in town. Which is where the S90D range comes in.

BenQ’s gaming outside the box • If you're the kind of gamer who not only enjoys bigscreen immersion but likes to play just...