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DTS:X to arrive on AV receivers later this year
Team HCC  |  Apr 10, 2015  |  0 comments

DTS has finally unveiled further details about DTS:X, its object-based, 'multi-dimensional' audio technology that is following hot on the heels of Dolby Atmos. The company has indicated that DTS:X-capable AV receivers from Onkyo, Pioneer and Yamaha will be available by the Autumn of 2015 (as will high-end processors from Steinway Lyngdorf, Theta and Trinnov), and that Denon's AVR-X7200W (pictured below) and Marantz's AV8802 will be DTS:X'd via a firmware upgrade 'later' this year. More brands and model numbers will be announced in due course.

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News
Home Cinema Choice 246 on sale now!
Anton van Beek  |  Apr 09, 2015  |  0 comments

Issue #246 of Home Cinema Choice is now on sale – and as usual it's packed with AV goodness...

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Televisions
LG 55EC930V review
Steve May  |  Apr 02, 2015  |  0 comments

Behind closed doors, in LG’s high-security Seoul HQ, dubbed The Twin Towers, there’s a white board screaming the message ‘2015 is the year of OLED!’ It’s underlined three times in red marker. There’s a smiley face drawn alongside.

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Soundbars/Soundbases
Canton DM 75 soundbase review
Danny Phillips  |  Mar 31, 2015  |  0 comments

Canton’s DM 50, reviewed last year, is perhaps best used with TVs around the 48in mark; the step-up DM 75 on test here supports screens up to 60in (or up to 40kg in weight). Bigger screens need a bigger sound and the DM 75’s roomier cabinet should provide the extra oomph you’re looking for.

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Blu-ray
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3D review
Anton van Beek & Richard Stevenson  |  Mar 30, 2015  |  0 comments

Before it became synonymous with cartoons and action figures, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles began life as an independent comic book that set out to parody the most popular superhero comics of the early 1980s.

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AV Receivers
Denon AVR-X5200W review
Richard Stevenson  |  Mar 29, 2015  |  0 comments

Full 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos processing, nine channels of amplification, networking, Bluetooth, AirPlay, Spotify Connect and an Auro-3D upgrade to boot. Denon’s AVR-X5200W has certainly been an exciting AV receiver to live with. And excitement... well, that's what home cinema is all about.

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Blu-ray
The Babadook review
Anton van Beek  |  Mar 28, 2015  |  0 comments

Arriving on a wave of critical acclaim, this Australian horror movie is the sort of shot in the arm the genre has been crying out for.

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Opinion
Picture this: Skin tones
Vincent Teoh  |  Mar 27, 2015  |  0 comments

As a professional calibrator, one of the most common reasons people ask me to tune their TVs is to obtain more realistic skin tones. Nothing jolts you out of an enjoyable viewing experience more than horrible-looking flesh tones, because these are part of a small group of colours called 'memory colours' – hues with which we are so familiar in real life that we instantly know if they don’t look right.

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Blu-ray
Paddington review
Anton van Beek  |  Mar 26, 2015  |  0 comments

When his home in darkest Peru is destroyed, a young bear is packed off by his aunt to London. Discovered on a platform at Paddington Station by the typically middle-class Brown family, he is given the name of Paddington and taken back to their home until they can find somewhere for him to live. Chaos ensues…

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Samsung HT-H5500 review
Danny Phillips  |  Mar 26, 2015  |  0 comments

Samsung’s entry-level 5.1 system throws in a set of super-compact speakers, a Blu-ray receiver and a subwoofer. It’ll set you back around £250, which is barely more than a standalone soundbar.

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