LATEST ADDITIONS

Adrian Justins  |  Dec 22, 2012  |  0 comments

You’ve got to admire Roth Audio for taking a risk with the name of its soundbar. It assumes, I guess, that customers will infer that no sub is required, not that the performance is worse than zero. Probably nobody cares, so long as it sounds cool. And taking care of low-end are dual built-in ‘Ultra Bass’ drivers, which complement six other drive units– including two side-firing drivers for an enhanced stereo effect. Power comes courtesy of a 64W amp, with Roth Audio’s proprietary Fractal Expansion processing promising the holy grail of surround sound.

Anton van Beek  |  Dec 21, 2012  |  0 comments

Bloated. Epic. Po-faced. Spectacular. Say what you will, but Christopher Nolan certainly knew how to pull out all the stops and subvert expectations when it came to bringing his Batman trilogy to a close.

Anton van Beek  |  Dec 21, 2012  |  0 comments

Expanded from a short film (also included on this Blu-ray), The Pact delivers a wonderfully spooky opening act before quickly descending into a more mundane plot that wouldn't have looked out of place in an episode of The X Files. The Blu-ray itself scores highly for its impressively sharp and detailed AVC 1.85:1 1080p visuals, but the DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix is so low-key that it proves no more expansive than the LPCM 2.0 track also included on the disc. As well as the original short mentioned above, the disc also includes three short featurettes about the cast, director and location.

Martin Pipe  |  Dec 20, 2012  |  0 comments

A.C. Ryan has been responsible for some of the better networked multimedia players of recent years. Another entity that started rising to prominence at about the same time is the smartphone. The best-known example of this is, of course, the iPhone, which is rivalled by a range of devices running Google’s Android – a Linux-derived operating system optimised for handheld devices. However, some are now taking Android and building it into other electronic gizmos.

Team HCC  |  Dec 20, 2012  |  0 comments

Team HCC proudly presents its guide to 50 of the most memorable images served up by the Blu-ray and DVD platters released in the UK during 2012.

Anton van Beek  |  Dec 20, 2012  |  0 comments

As much as we've enjoyed the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare games, the first …Black Ops left us pretty cold. Thankfully, those responsible have clearly learnt from their mistakes last time around and have won us over with this sensational sequel.

Anton van Beek  |  Dec 20, 2012  |  0 comments

To celebrate the upcoming cinema release of the 'found footage' horror anthology V/H/S, UK distributor Momentum Pictures is hosting a one-off advance screening of the film in London's Blackhall Studios, Shoreditch, on Wednesday, January 16.

Anton van Beek  |  Dec 20, 2012  |  0 comments

A young boy and girl run off together sparking a desperate search by local police, parents and scouts in this latest piece of over-stylised whimsy from director Wes Anderson. While not the filmmaker's best work (there the same sense of treading water that affected The Life Aquatic…) fans will find plenty to enjoy. And you'd be hard pushed to find any major faults with this disc's AVC 1.85:1 1080p encode and its autumnal palette and cinematic grain. The deceptively immersive DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix is equally pleasing. Limited extras include a set tour and jokey cast and director profiles.

Anton van Beek  |  Dec 20, 2012  |  0 comments

Originally conceived by producer Arthur Freed as a way of re-using MGM’s existing catalogue of songs, Singin’ in the Rain still stands as the best musical Hollywood ever. That it’s also the funniest and most insightful movie about filmmaking ever made (and tackles the subject of the transition from silent films to talkies with more panache than The Artist) is why it rates as one of my favourite films. So this new Blu-ray has it’s work cut out trying to impress me…

Steve May  |  Dec 20, 2012  |  0 comments

It doesn’t take a genius to understand the appeal of Echostar’s HDT-610R Freeview+ HD receiver. Hailed as the slimmest digital TV recorder in the world, it looks more like a tablet computer than a PVR. Astonishingly thin at just 14mm, it barely provides enough space for traditional rear-panel connections. But this really is a grown-up PVR, with a 500GB laptop drive squished beneath the hood (enough for around 300 hours of standard-def telly and 125 hours of HD).

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