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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Mini LED for the masses

C major upgrade

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Sonus faber Sonetto G2

New Marantz box of tricks • M1 blends HEOS streaming and HDMI ARC with 2 x 100W power plant

Playlist… • What Team HCC has been watching this month

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

Primare launches SP25 • 11-channel Dirac-enabled processor pledges 'unparalleled' performance

WiiM doubles down on new models • New-look streamer and upgraded amplifier are on the way

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

Panasonic plays it smart • 2024 TV lineup features both Fire TV and TiVo models – plus Freely

18in subwoofer, Perlisten-style • £5,000 R18s sees manufacturer go large on a new bass driver

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…

Doing the monster mash • Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire ➜ Warner Bros. ➜ 4K Blu-ray

Trapeze speaker aims high • Lively and engrossing, these neo-retro loudspeakers from Audiovector create immersion without clutter. Steve May is wowed in Copenhagen

Great Danes • Is the European country the epicentre of audio?

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#05 AV road trip • The UK’s network of custom installers, retailers and dealers keeps our home cinema hobby ticking over. This issue, Dan Sait visits Artcoustic UK’s showroom near Chelmsford, Essex

High-End Munich 2024 • Ed Selley and Jamie Biesemans sample some serious sounds

JUST THE TWO OF US • As the Bad Boys return to cinemas with Ride or Die, Anton van Beek highlights the best movies of the buddy cop genre – even those which don't feature any actual cops…

Crossing the Meridian line • This monster movie room rocks a 17.4.6 speaker system using active models and state-of-the-art processing, says Daniel Sait

REVIEWS • ➜ HARDWARE JVC Premium DLA-NZ800 4K HDR laser projector with 8K upscaling JBL All-in-one speaker/soundbar PHILIPS 55in OLED809 TV celebrates 20 years of Ambilight BOWERS & WILKINS 700 S3 Signature speaker system EMOTIVA MR1 11-channel AV receiver LG Flagship G4 OLED flatscreen HISENSE C1 'Smart Mini' projector & MORE!

Evolution, not revolution • JVC’s latest midrange 4K laser beamer adds a few new features, but is that enough for Steve Withers?

Philips OLED is best in show • With its AI-powered HDR upgrades and new Game Bar, Philips' TV is a serious contender, argues Steve May

Upgraded inside and out • Three of B&W’s 700 S3 speakers are the latest to be given 'Signature' status. Mark Craven investigates

The Iron Man of AV receivers • Emotiva’s 11.2-channel AVR punches right in line with its substantial weight, says Martin Dew

Taking it to the Max • LG’s new top-of-the-range 4K OLED TV builds handsomely on the ground-breaking efforts of its predecessor, reckons John Archer

JBL L42ms • Retro looks or not, JBL’s beefy L42ms music system/soundbar hybrid serves up some blistering audio performance, enthuses Martin Dew

Hisense proves it’s hip to be square • Hisense delivers, by its standards, a fairly typical projector… with what John Archer...