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

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Power up! • Rotel RMB-1585MKII/RMB-1587MKII ➜ www.rotel.com

Four on the floor • McIntosh PS2K ➜ www.mcintoshlabs.com

Meet REL’s Classic 98 • New sub aims to mix 'mid-century charm' with state-of-the-art tech

Playlist… • What Team HCC has been watching this month

OLED+908 enters the UK • Philips' first OLED with Micro Lens Array panel to sell from £2,999 at 55in

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

Range-topping streamer • Premium model from Audiolab doubles as both player and transport

Streamlined AV • Marantz Stereo 70s ➜ www.marantz.com

Compact and affordable • New DAC and stereo HDMI amp from Tangent target budget buyers

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

Power amp, Lyngdorf style • Brand launches eight-channel model packing Purifi Class D modules

Suited and booted • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One ➜ Paramount ➜ 4K Blu-ray

Apple TV+ • Launched in 2019, Apple’s streaming video platform has earned a reputation for high-quality original programming and premium-grade AV. John Archer takes a bite

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Tech intrigue at IFA 2023 • Suitcase TVs, retro-styled Dolby Atmos speakers, 4K laser projectors… Steve May selects his highlights from the Berlin show

Best of the best: CEDIA Awards '23 • Each year the CEDIA Awards celebrates the very best home theatre and media room projects from professional installers in the UK and around the world. Take a look at these finalists and winners to get inspiration for your own system…

And there’s more • 2023 CEDIA EMEA finalists and winners that caught our eye

13 TALES OF TERROR • Looking for Halloween horrors to spin on your home cinema? Anton van Beek counts down some classic chillers that will have you rushing to switch the light on when the end credits roll…

Light up your life

Samsung rolls on with 8K • Samsung’s flagship TV persuades John Archer that 8K technology can still be worth considering

Superior sound and vision • Physical media fan Jon Thompson celebrates the no-stone unturned philosophy of this heavyweight disc-spinner

Sonos system is extra spatial • New Era 300 speakers heighten the performance of Sonos’s Arc soundbar, says Kulwinder Singh Rai

Lush looks, Fyne sonics • Mark Craven battles Ares and explores the New World with 'Special Production' models from Fyne Audio

PJ gets smarter at the edges • Samsung’s upgraded portable LED beamer adds new clever features. Steve Withers gets blending…

Extreme imaging • madVR’s MK2 video processor offers features to make any home cinema enthusiast green with envy, reckons Steve Withers

LG USC9S • Jamie Biesemans auditions a 3.1.3-channel LG soundbar system that really wants to be used with one of the brand’s recent OLED TVs

Focal Bathys • The French brand’s ANC cans have gained a new 'hearing test' feature. Ed Selley listens up

Wiim Mini • Ed Selley marvels at the functionality and solid performance of this budget network streamer

Ruark R410 • With support for wired and wireless sources, this suave high-resolution sound system could be the AV refresh...