Home Cinema Choice Magazine - July 2024

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Our cover star this issue is JVC’s DLA-NZ800, a new model from the high-end projector specialist promising best-in-class 4K HDR playback and offering extensive calibration tools and user features. Is this beamer the perfect choice for your dedicated movie room? We give our verdict.

Also on the test bench is Philips’ 55OLED809, the TV maker’s latest OLED flatscreen with Ambilight integration, Google TV smarts and proprietary processing. We also run the rule over Bowers & Wilkins 700 S3 Signature speakers in a premium 5.1 array; Emotiva’s 11-channel MR1 AV receiver; the compact C1 ‘Smart Mini’ projector from Hisense; JBL’s retro-inspired L42ms soundbar/speaker; affordable and high-end TVs from Sharp and LG; SVS’s new Ultra Evolution Pinnacle floorstanding speakers; and more. Whatever your budget, we’ve got you covered!

On the software side, we check out new disc and streaming releases including Dune: Part Two, Madame Web, Atlas and ’60s sci-fi classic Planet of the Vampires. We also look back at epic western Once Upon a Time in the West as it debuts on 4K disc, and – in honour of new blockbuster Bad Boys: Ride or Die – give our pick of
the best buddy cop movies to buy on Blu-ray.

Elsewhere, we take a tour of a custom install running 26 speaker and four subs, check out a reader’s system all the way from Panama, report on the audio highlights of the recent Munich High-End show, and discover how projector marque Barco is shaking up the world of commercial cinema.

Plus: all the usual opinions, news, disc reviews and competitions. Enjoy the show!