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.
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BULLETIN • ➜News highlights BOWERS & WILKINS Entry-level 600 Series loudspeakers reimagined SONY A95L Quantum Dot OLED TV hits the UK HUMAX Android TV media player AT THE PLEX This month’s cinema releases KEF Lotus Edition for slender LS60 Wireless THE FLASH Star-studded superhero movie speeds on to 4K Blu-ray & MORE!
Ready to race! • KEF LS60 Wireless Lotus Edition ➜ uk.kef.com
Sony ups its OLED game • …while LG showcases high-end Micro LED with Bang & Olufsen speakers
Playlist… • What Team HCC has been watching this month
Set your ears to stun… • The UK Hi-Fi Show Live returns to offer the best of high-end audio
At the 'plex… • Heading out to see a flick? Catch these this month
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B&W 600 Series revamp • Trickle-down tech plus all-new tweeters grace brand’s 'first step' speakers
Press play • Discs spinning your way in the coming month…
Run for the thrills… • The Flash ➜ Warner Bros. ➜ 4K Blu-ray
Super Audio CD • First launched in 1999 as an 'enhancement' to CD, SACD still soldiers on with new releases every month. Mark Craven considers its appeal to home cinema hedz
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WIN! Klipsch’s The Fives speakers • THIS ISSUE WE'VE joined forces with Klipsch and its UK distributor Henley Audio to give away the American audio brand’s The Fives, a high-performance powered stereo speaker system ready to upgrade both your music and movie listening. Usually selling for £799, it could be yours for free!
DVD: versatile to the end? • It’s now a quarter of a century since DVD players and discs first appeared in the UK. Martin Pipe charts the format’s origins, worldwide success, and what came next…
Silver service • Remembering a couple of DVD side-lines
Cashing in • DVDs were better than VHS – and cheaper to make
DENZEL on Dise • With Denzel Washington back in cinemas in The Equalizer 3, Anton van Beek rounds up the actor’s greatest Hollywood hits
We don't need no education… • Why have a study when it could be a home cinema instead? Daniel Sait reports on a pro-install with wall-to-wall visuals
REVIEWS • ➜HARDWARE PANASONIC MZ2000 TV with 'Master OLED Ultimate' panel tech PARADIGM 13in XR series subwoofer MCINTOSH MHT300 Dolby Atmos/Dirac AV receiver BLUESOUND Powernode Edge streaming amplifier KLIPSCH 5.1.2 floorstanding Reference Premiere II speaker system SAMSUNG SC90 Quantum Dot OLED TV & MORE!
Panasonic OLED levels up • Appearances can be deceiving, says Steve May, as Panasonic’s new top-flight OLED offers a real upgrade
Atmos array packs a punch • Martin Dew grabs a front-row seat to audition Klipsch’s latest Reference Premiere loudspeakers
Cute cube PJ with big ideas • Don't be fooled by its quirky looks – XGIMI’s new projector has some serious skills, reckons John Archer
Walls of surround sound • Steve Withers discovers McIntosh’s AVR mixes old-school know-how with cutting-edge tech
Sealed sub with ARC attack • Richard Stevenson runs the rule over a new Paradigm subwoofer with advanced room EQ built-in
Bluesound Powernode Edge • The streaming specialist’s desire to create a component for every occasion continues with this...