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.

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BULLETIN • NEWS HIGHLIGHTS BLUESOUND Pulse soundbar revamped with Dolby Atmos PANASONIC 2021 OLED range gets 48in model PARADIGM Founder Series loudspeakers unveiled NEWS X10 The hottest news stories in bite-sized chunks PRESS PLAY Discs spinning your way this month BATMAN V SUPERMAN A new 4K dawn for the comic book blockbuster & MORE!

Shiver me timbers! • Paradigm Founder Series? www.paradigm.com

Game on for Pana OLED • JZ range confirmed with HDMI 2.1 tricks – but there's a catch…

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

A new Vision for genre film fans • Phil Escott is the founder of new UK Blu-ray label – and film festival – Fractured Visions. We asked him about Italian crime movies, limited edition releases and the appeal of silver discs

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

Polk enters Atmos arena • Nine-model Reserve range trickles down driver tech from Legend line

Sony 5.1 cuts the clutter • Affordable soundbar/surround system makes subwoofer it's beating heart

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

It takes two to tango • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Ultimate Edition (Remastered)? Warner Bros.? Ultra HD Blu-ray

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

Panasonic's slim and sonic

Atmos without wires?

Micro machine from SVS • Smallest model yet from American corp doubles up on 8in woofers

Aiming higher • Bluesound Pulse Soundbar+? www.bluesound.com

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ADDING HDR ZING TO LOVE & ANARCHY • Cinematographer Ulf Brantås has lensed top UK crime and period dramas, and now his Swedish rom-com has become an international hit. Steve May talks lipstick…

System selector • Team HCC assembles a trio of AV packages that approach home cinema from different ways – but are all about maximum bang-for-buck

The £2,000 5.1 system • Grab a bargain OLED TV, add 5.1 surround sound, and enjoy the show

The £3,500 PJ/Atmos system • This setup goes big on picture and high on sound, but keeps the price low

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF STEVEN SPIELBERG

Avoid these! • But four out of 32 ain't bad

SEQUELS…

UNDERRATED…

SOLID…

For Spielberg completists • These have their moments, but aren't his finest work

Minority Report

ESSENTIAL…

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Raiders of the Lost Ark

You only live once… • Daniel Sait drools over a reference-grade movie room where 007 fandom combines with 11.8.4 Atmos audio

REVIEWS • HARDWARE DENON AVR-X2700H seven-channel Atmos/DTS:X receiver KEF Ultracompact dual-driver subwoofer LG 65in G1 'Evo Panel' OLED TV and portable wireless speaker JBL Bar 5.0 MultiBeam soundbar LUMAGEN High-end Radiance video processor REL T/9x 10in subwoofer MEZE Wired over-ear headphones GOOGLE Next-gen Chromecast streamer & MORE!

KEF sub thinks inside the box • Mark Craven admires the brains behind this brawny, bijou bassmaker

Full-throttle AV • Denon’s entry-level X-series AV receiver is indisputably brilliant, says a smitten Steve May

Making movie magic • Sony’s smallest ever OLED TV won't excite the gaming console cognoscenti, but...