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Mark Craven  |  Jun 15, 2017  |  0 comments

Bass is a vital part of the home cinema package. Hefty, heaving, humongous low-frequencies are guaranteed to add scale and impact to a surround sound experience, in a way that crystalline high frequencies or robust dialogue just don't. For some AV enthusiasts, their subwoofer is their favourite toy.

Team HCC  |  Jun 14, 2017  |  0 comments

Optoma has announced its debut 4K projectors, the UHD60 and UHD65. Both models use 4K DLP technology and support HDR 10 playback, making them perfect partners for Ultra HD Blu-ray.

Team HCC  |  Jun 14, 2017  |  0 comments

We've teamed up with AV heavyweight Yamaha to give away its YSP-2700 digital sound projector, worth £900. This creates a 7.1 surround sound cinema experience, using state-of-the-art beam driver technology, from a stylish and easy-to-accommodate design.

Danny Phillips  |  Jun 06, 2017  |  0 comments

Q Acoustics’ motorway-themed soundbar range continues with the M3, a slimmer and more affordable follow-up to the M4 (reviewed here and winner of our Soundbar of the Year award) and is actually still on sale three years later.

John Archer  |  Jun 05, 2017  |  0 comments

With the likes of Sense and Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain and Life Of Pi on his CV, director Ang Lee must have looked like the safest pair of hands for this adaptation of Ben Fountain's acclaimed novel about an Iraq war hero struggling to adjust to life in the US media spotlight. Somehow, though, things have gone horribly wrong. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk isn't just a bad Ang Lee film; it's a bad film full stop. And some of the blame has to be laid at the door of Lee's insistence on filming it in a high frame rate.

John Archer  |  May 18, 2017  |  0 comments

While other brands have finally got their act together, for a long time Sony was the only game in town if you wanted a genuine 4K home cinema projector. The VW550ES is its latest 4K model, and its £9,000 price tag immediately reminds us that native 4K projection doesn’t yet come cheap. In fact, the projector hits the market with a ticket higher than its well-received VW520ES predecessor.

Team HCC  |  May 18, 2017  |  0 comments

Issue #273 of Home Cinema Choice is on sale today – and as usual it's packed with AV goodness...

Steve May  |  May 17, 2017  |  0 comments

Is the time right to downsize that soundbar? Well, with set-top boxes, games consoles, Blu-ray players and jumbo bags of Maltesers all vying for space beneath your flatscreen, real estate is increasingly precious, so if you can shrink without impacting sound quality, going nano clearly makes a lot of sense.

Team HCC  |  Apr 26, 2017  |  0 comments

Bespoke home cinema design and installation specialist Finite Solutions is offering children's wards across the country the chance to have a space in their facility transformed into a state-of-the-art cinema room.

Mark Craven  |  Apr 24, 2017  |  0 comments

In an issue of HCC five years ago, we tasked Steve May with imagining what technology and concepts would be making a name for themselves in home AV in 2017. Ultra HD and OLED were naturally tipped to develop. That Dolby Atmos wasn’t even mentioned, though, is testament to just how quickly the object-based audio format has found favour in our living rooms and picture palaces. At the beginning of 2012, Dolby Atmos didn’t exist.

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