No, it doesn’t involve selling popcorn to strangers off of the street! Home cinema has come to be a catch-all term for a system that plays music and movies with a TV or projector and an external speaker system of some kind, usually surround sound. The whole idea is to recreate as accurately as possible the picture and sound quality of a cinema auditorium. Filmmakers want their work to be showcased in all its glory, with not a line of dialogue missed or a pixel out of place and a home cinema is just the tool for the job – in fact, you’d be surprised at how easy it is to build a seriously impressive sounding system.
We all want the best of everything, but for plenty of reasons we can’t always have all we want at once. Or at least that’s what we believed before the emergence of Yamaha’s Aventage line of AV receivers. Read on …read more
When companies release a range of new products every year it would be easy to imagine that they’ve literally just put a bigger number on the front panel and not changed anything internally from the previous model. Not so with …read more
Yamaha has launched an updated line of AV receivers for the coming year with some exciting improvements to an already fantastic range. Join us as we look at the new RXV585 to see what’s changed and see whether now is …read more
It’s that time of year again when television manufacturers are releasing their new models for 2018 and Panasonic are no different. So, to kick things off we sat down with Panasonic’s new FX750 TV range – specifically the TX49FX750. This TV …read more
Canton can do no wrong when it comes to their DM range, with both the DM50 and DM55 being highly rated and even winning awards for their design and sound. It’s been three years since the release of the DM55, …read more
Today’s cinephiles have some of the widest choices ever available when it comes to equipment and maximising the sound from their favourite movies. In particular the price point for the latest standards of Dolby Atmos and DTS:X audio encoding has …read more
Watching your content on a beautiful 4K screen with rich, life-like colours and razor-sharp images can be an incredible experience. But this is just the half of it. To do justice to the picture, you need the sound to match. We …read more
One of the challenges when choosing new AV equipment is finding the right unit for your budget which isn’t going to be out of date in a few years; a unit which is supportive of all the latest and greatest …read more
Samsung’s QLED TVs have been among some of the best when it comes to getting the most out of the latest content. Unfortunately, the high specs create an equally high asking price making it difficult to get into when you’re …read more
LG’s new range of Super UHD TVs bring an exciting range of new features to the mid-range market for 2018… With their striking design and vibrant display, LG’s Super UHD TVs really do offer a compelling option to tempt those …read more
