Home Cinema Choice - 09.2018

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.

***This issue’s cover star is Philips’s 55OLED803, a super-powered 55in OLED Ambilight 4K TV packing the brand’s advanced Perfect Natural Reality picture processing. Does this flatscreen deserve a place in your home cinema setup? We give our verdict. Also on the test bench this issue is M&K Sound’s high-performance in-wall/on-wall IW150 5.1 loudspeaker array and its monster subwoofer. We also run the rule over TCL’s affordable 55DC748 55in Ultra HD LED TV; Polk’s dialogue-boosting Magnifi MAX SR soundbar system; Panasonic’s flagship TX-55FZ952B OLED flatscreen; Sony’s HT-ZF9 3.1-channel soundbar with Dolby Atmos processing; Optoma’s £550 Full HD projector bargain; Amazon’s Alexa-enabled Echo Spot smart assistant; and more. Whatever your budget, we’ve got you covered. On the software side, we check out new Blu-ray and 4K releases including A Quiet Place, Mission: Impossible 1-5, The Complete Sartana and Ghost Stories, plus a HD upgrade for Doctor Who: Season 12. And if you’re looking for something to show off your new 4K TV, don’t miss our round-up of the 20 best-looking Ultra HD Blu-rays. We also scour the cinematic wasteland for the most entertaining post-apocalyptic movies. Elsewhere, we talk to the 3D Film Archive about the stereoscopic format’s past and future; go behind-the-scenes at Focal; check out a bespoke home cinema for a pair of film fanatics; report on a blockbuster year at the box office; and remember the glory days of movie novelisations. Plus: all the usual opinions, news, disc reviews and competitions. Enjoy the show!***