Home Cinema Choice Magazine - October 2023

In this issue

Our cover star this issue is Panasonic’s MZ2000 OLED TV, the first to feature the brand’s new ‘Master OLED Ultimate’ panel technology. The promise is of peerless pictures combined with immersive audio from an integrated SoundScape Pro speaker system. Does this flagship flatscreen deliver the goods? Read our in-depth review. Also on the test bench is McIntosh’s MHT300, the first AV receiver from the premium American marque with Dirac Live calibration. We run the rule over this high-power seven-channel beast, plus a 5.1.2 speaker package from Klipsch’s new Reference Premiere line-up; XGIMI’s latest projector, the Horizon Ultra; a 13in active subwoofer from Paradigm; Philips’ 55PUS8808 LED TV; the Powernode Edge streaming amplifier from Bluesound; Totem Acoustic’s Tribe Duo soundbar; and more. Whatever your budget, we’ve got you covered!
On the software side, we check out new Blu-ray, 4K and streaming releases including Fast X, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Heart of Stone. We also pick our favourite Denzel Washington movies on disc from 2 Guns to Unstoppable, and look back at Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic Psycho, plus its three sequels, all coming to a new 4K boxset.
Elsewhere, we celebrate the best of the best home cinema hardware with this year’s EISA Awards, check out a custom install with hidden audio, look back at the arrival of DVD in the UK 25 years ago, and reveal why we can’t stop watching Oppenheimer in IMAX 15/70…
Plus all the usual opinions, news, disc reviews and competitions. Enjoy the show!