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.
As televisions become more aesthetically pleasing every year, the last thing we want to do is clutter up the living space with big unsightly boxes… One thing that is becoming more and more important is how our home entertainment systems …read more
With the multi-room streaming market growing bigger all the time, manufacturers need to do something a little different to catch the consumer’s eye and steal a march on competitors. Enter the HEOS AVR by Denon… Up until now, if you …read more
While I review a lot of high end televisions on this blog, it’s important to note that 4K televisions aren’t out of reach of most people. The technology has been around long enough that they have ultimately become the norm …read more
Dolby Atmos soundbars are everywhere now – gone are they days when having a Dolby Atmos set up in your living room involved masses of speakers, encapsulating your entire living room with 4km of cable and taking a hammer to …read more
Gone are the days when a 19″ TV would be present in every bedroom in the house. Bigger doesn’t always mean better, but that’s not what the TV market seems to think… Televisions are getting slimmer every year and this …read more
There are still some among us who are hesitant to dive head-first into the world of 4K, and to those people I can’t stress it enough; its time to take the plunge… 4K isn’t a gimmick. There’s more content available than you …read more
A massive surge in readily available 4K content over the past 12 months has really opened up the 4K TV market to the masses. We are seeing releases from manufacturers left right and centre, and crucially at all price points. Good …read more
Have REL managed to retain their world class, full fat bass with their new slim-line sub, despite its innovative chameleon-esqe, sleek design? Read our review to explore what makes the Habitat 1 a great match for your home cinema set up… Designed to …read more
The 2017 range of Samsung UHD televisions have all landed in our stores now and they look fantastic. From the mighty QLED range down to the mid range MU series, Samsung seem to have hit the nail on the head …read more
Having been totally fixated with the Q Acoustic M4 that was released back in 2015, I was expecting big things from the sleeker, more modern-looking M3… As soon as you get Q Acoustic’s M3 soundbar out of the box, it immediately …read more
