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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Lightning strikes twice

Piega plays its Ace

Blue is the colour

Don't ask how much it costs…

PMC celebrates 30 years • UK marque started life as the answer to a question from the BBC

Playlist… • Team HCC spins up its film and TV picks of the month

Arrow fires up UK VOD service • Daniel Perry, Head of Digital at Arrow, reveals what film fans can expect from the company's new subscription video-on-demand platform

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

Roon rolls out revamp • Update to music management system offers 'immersive new experience'

Disc and digital combined • McIntosh's MCD85 adds USB playback to CD/SACD

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

4Kaiju • Godzilla [2014] → Warner Bros → Ultra HD Blu-ray

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

OLED TV smarter than the rest?

T+A expands Caruso family

B&O's one for the future • Beosound Level speaker is brand's first modular, upgradable design

That's no projector… • Samsung The Wall → www.habitech.co.uk

Mini LED TV with a Philips twist • The TV corp has unwrapped its premium flatscreen range for 2021, adding the state-of-the-art shrunken LED tech to its now traditional roster of Ambilight, Atmos and OLED.

STREAMING TV… For the love of VOD • Which SVOD service has the best content? And which rules the roost when it comes to AV quality? Steve May, John Archer and Mark Craven grab a remote and investigate

DISASTERCLASS! • If you are in the mood for more disaster movie mayhem after watching Greenland on Prime Video and Roland Emmerich's 2012 on 4K BD, Team HCC is here to help…

Your starter for ten… • This cinema project proves the best things can come in small packages, says Daniel Sait

Making space for family fun • Twin-screen entertainment combines with unusual decor in this multi-purpose basement conversion, says Mark Craven

REVIEWS

Mini LED lights the way for 4K • Samsung turns to Mini LED for its 2021 4K flagship TV, and John Archer couldn't be happier

Bronze better than third place • The fan-fave AV bundle returns with a new look, new drivers and a new Atmos toy. Mark Craven reports

LG’s budget barnstormer • Steve May reckons this 55in entry-level OLED TV is a belting buy for canny AV enthusiasts

BenQ projector has laser focus • The beamer brand pulls out all the stops with its UST 4K model. Time for some WALL-E, suggests Steve May

LG lets Dolby Atmos into the Gallery • If you own an LG GX OLED TV, you’ll swoon over this sleek dedicated soundbar, but it’s not for performance hounds, cautions Steve May

Q Acoustics Q Active 200 • Q Acoustics’ first active speaker is part of a wireless system that has some AV possibilities, says Ed Selley – even if he'd likely give the optional stands a pass…

Asus ROG Delta S • Why should gamers have all the fun? These MQA-enabled headphones are good for more than just a Call of Duty session, says Steve May

Samsung UE43TU7100 • This entry-level Crystal UHD cheapie is admirably well equipped, says Steve May

JBL Charge 4 • Mark Craven loads up his Wet Wet Wet playlist to sample this portable Bluetooth speaker

Hisense 65AE7400FT •...