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.

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Flaming-hot smart TV? • ➜News highlights Q ACOUSTICS New loudspeakers assembled in a 5.1 system EMOTIVA American corp launches MC1 processor and MR1 receiver SVS In-wall subwoofer added to 3000 Series NAD Affordable CS1 network streamer AT THE PLEX This month's cinema releases THE LAST OF US HBO's masterful game adaptation levels up to 4K Blu-ray & MORE!

Bridging the gap

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In-wall LFE from SVS • American subwoofer specialist sets sights on custom installations

Plug and play NAD streamer

JVC projector a bright star?

Emotiva's new AV duo • Processor and AVR 'cut the cost of high-performance home cinema'

At the 'plex…

Four-strong bass invasion • RP series subwoofers complete Klipsch's premium offering

Bat's entertainment • Matt Reeves' Gotham epic screened with accompanying orchestra

Press play

TCL unveils C64 QLED range • HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Android TV and more grace brand's first-rung tellies

Room for one more?

Two-player game • The Last of Us: The Complete First Season➜Warner Bros.➜4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray

Roon • This paid-for music management hub promises the ultimate in audio streaming convenience, but how does it work and do you need it? Ed Selley explains all

Amazon enters TV and games jungle • The launch of the Omni QLED shows the media corp is getting serious about the TV biz, says Steve May, and it has its eye on joystick junkies too

System selector! • Given three similar budgets, Mark Craven, Steve May and John Archer assemble three different AV setups focused on movies, streaming and gaming

THE KING OF HOLLYWOOD • Three of his movies have taken over $2billon at the global box office, he's pioneered SFX and 3D technologies, and he's been to the very bottom of the Pacific Ocean. That's James Cameron by the way, not Anton van Beek

One project, two rooms • Dan Sait reports on a custom install where a JVC PJ/ Atmos system is joined by a stylish media den

The number of the beast • ➜Hardware LG OLED65G3 TV debuts the brand's MLA panel tech SONY HT-A5000 Dolby Atmos soundbar SYSTEM AUDIO Saxo on-wall 5.1 speaker system SAMSUNG Secondgeneration QD OLED flagship MARANTZ Slimline Cinema 70s AV receiver AUDIO PRO Active wireless floorstanders JBL Bar 1000 promises surround sonics without cable clutter & MORE!

Samsung's quantum leap • This second-gen Quantum Dot OLED TV confirms to John Archer that the technology is the real deal

The legacy continues • REL's £7,000, 52kg sub reminds Richard Stevenson what good bass is all about

Discreet delivery • A slim, stylish Scandinavian on-wall system impresses Mark Craven with its handling of the sweet stuff

Glittering G3 TV is cinema gold • To quote Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting: 'Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the presence of greatness!' The most beautiful LG Display OLED screen I've seen in over a decade of scrutiny, the 65G3 is everything I want from an OLED TV: perfect black, sublime near shadow detail, rich colour performance and futureproofed connectivity for gaming (or as close to it as you're likely to find in 2023).

Short and sweet • The Cinema 70s is Marantz's entry-level AVR for 2023. But it isn't merely the most affordable model in the range, only here to get...