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

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Piega goes on active duty • Piega Premium Wireless ➜ www.piega.ch/en

Taking the pain out of AV • Panasonic UK MD Simon Grantham talks 8K and keeping faith in BD

Playlist… • Team HCC spins up its disc picks of the month

HDR10+ goes Universal… • Another Hollywood heavyweight signs up to Samsung's HDR cause

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

Onkyo's Atmos in a box • New systems bundle speakers and amp for affordable AV thrills

Disney VOD gets creative • A powerhouse roster of franchises will make Disney+ hard to resist

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

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

Premiere… • What's happening in the world of TV and films…

Thrills and chills • Cold Pursuit ➜ Studiocanal ➜ DVD/Blu-ray/Ultra HD Blu-ray

Back of the 'net • Trailers, technology and more to check out on the web

Face to Face • Topics of discussion on the HCC Facebook page

Now you C me • Klipsch C-Series ➜ henleyaudio.co.uk

OLED poetry in motion • Bang & Olufsen has cooked up a premium OLED TV with a (literal) twist. Steve May reports on this, and more, from Milan Design Week

Sonos, Sony and Samsung bring tech to the home of fashion • Multiroom speakers to add to your meatballs… and robotic balls to play with

The comic book movies that you forgot • Comic book adaptations are Hollywood's biggest business, but not all are successful – for every Avengers: Endgame breaking box office records, there's a Howard The Duck (see p99) being roasted by critics. And who remembers Billy Zane as The Phantom?

Get animated • From page to screen without an actor in sight

Projectors: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW • For the ultimate in home cinema, you can’t beat the largescreen, vision-filling experience made possible by a projector, but the technology comes with many questions. What is keystone correction? Laser, lamp or LED? Short or long-throw? John Archer is your guide

Eco mode… • There's more to this than thinking 'green'…

3D lives on • Home cinema projection still has spex appeal

Dynamic iris • Improving contrast – but at what cost?

Fan noise • All part of your projector keeping things cool

Putting the big into bigscreen • This premium theatre marries a high-end 4K laser projector to a 3.5m-wide lateral masking screen. Daniel Sait enjoys the view

Aria system sings • Clever driver technology and elegant design combine in this 5.1 system from Focal's Aria lineup. We're all ears on p48

Wider colour home cinema • BenQ’s W2700 is the first of a new breed of more colour-rich 4K DLP projectors. Steve May opens his eyes

LG OLED comes of age • The first new OLED flatscreen of 2019 finds John Archer in a celebratory mood

Firepower and finesse • Does this 5.1 system have the muscle to back up its good looks? asks David Vivian

Yamaha's seven up • Does this midrange AVR do enough to compete? Steve Withers finds out

Take solace in Quantum Dots • Samsung's latest Quantum Dot TV leaves John Archer feeling shaken and stirred

Artison amp wants to hitch a lift • Steve May plays hide and seek with this space-saving 5.1-channel AV amplifier that's designed to mount to the back of your...