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.

Home Cinema Choice

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Make mine a large… • Hisense 100 U76N ➜ www.hisense.co.uk

UK cinema bounces back • 2023 box office takings near levels last seen before Covid pandemic

Playlist… • What Team HCC has been watching this month

At the 'plex… • Heading out to see a flick? Catch these this month

Bristol Hi-Fi show returns • 35th iteration of the UK audio showcase readied for end of February

Musical Fidelity tube-toting DAC • Latest addition to its Nu-Vista series designed for discerning audiophiles

Walnut whirl • KEF Q Series ➜ uk.kef.com

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

Focal evolves Aria line • Aria Evo X builds upon design of the French brand’s Aria 900 series

KEF cuts cost of LSX II • New LT edition hopes to bring 'newcomers' to the brand

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

House of pain • The Amityville Horror ➜ 88 Films ➜ 4K Blu-ray

Sony pushes Mini LED to the max • Steve May reports from Tokyo on the game-changing Mini LED backlighting technology that wants to dethrone OLED as King of the TV jungle

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AV road trip #01 • The UK’s network of custom installers, retailers and dealers keeps our home cinema hobby ticking over. This issue, Dan Sait visits Cyberhomes in Thame, Oxfordshire

CES 2024 • Samsung and LG pushed transparent displays, Hisense and TCL continued to think big and audio cassette teased a comeback – Steve May and Mark Craven on the glittering new tech launched at the Las Vegas expo

THE MASTER OF CINEMA • Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, now streaming on Apple TV+, is the latest movie in a career spanning over 50 years – Anton van Beek spotlights the director’s best on Blu-ray

Triple-tier movie den • It’s a case of 'come on down' in this three-level cinema where movies, games and a drink at the bar are on offer. Dan Sait reports

REVIEWS

Pin-sharp projector with lens flair • With the Cine 1, camera giant Leica has taken the ultra-short-throw concept and given it a high-end makeover, enthuses Steve May

Mid-tier muscle from Denon • Denon’s new AV amp will help it consolidate its position in the mid-range market, says Steve Withers

Z3 OLED TV flies the 8K flag • As LG struggles to get prices down for its 8K OLED TVs, John Archer finds out if those extra pixels are worth it

Full-frontal assault • Steve Withers samples a floorstanding multichannel package from British sonic wizards Q Acoustics

Lyngdorf’s game, set and match • Danish brand’s immersive audio processors finally find their equal in this stunning eight-channel power amp, says Martin Dew

Velodyne Impact X 12 • On the surface, this £995 12in ported subwoofer doesn't scream 'AV excitement', but Richard Stevenson discovers it has hidden depths. Literally

Tangent Ampster TV II • Do you have a sonically lacking flatscreen and a spare pair of loudspeakers? Ed Selley auditions an affordable HDMI-equipped amplifier that will unite the two

Majority Teton Plus • In belt-tightening times, this boost to your TV audio could be just the...