Friday February 29, 2008 Turok Xbox 360 AV review
Until someone starts to turn Ray Harryhausen movies into videogames this will have to do!
Home theater gamers with a long memory will no doubt feel affection for Turok. Back in the day, the release of the original game was seen as a graphical watershed...
Wednesday February 27, 2008 The Lost Oddities of Home Cinema – Retro Kit Special
DVD, VHS, Dolby Digital, Freeview and Sky+. Success stories, each and every one. But for every winner, there are losers. Sometimes, it’s down to over-complex usability, rubbish marketing or poor performance. Or perhaps it’s being too ahead of your time in...
Sky announces three more hi-def channels
Sky has announced three more channels for its high definition platform. Over the next couple of months, Sky Sports HD 3, Sky Movies Premiere HD and FX HD will be added, taking the total number of HD channels available to 17.
Sky says, 'The launch of Sky...
Did the earthquake kill your home cinema?
There were sweaty palms at HCC this morning, as we checked whether anything in our home cinema room had fallen off, shattered or self-combusted following last night's Californian-style 5.3-on-the-scale earthquake. Thankfully, everything from the projector...
Tuesday February 19, 2008 HD DVD is dead, really
Following the rumours over the last couple of days, Toshiba has finally banged the last nail into the HD DVD coffin, flicked off the light switch, locked the door, and told the milkman to stop deliveries.
Here follows the company's announcement...
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Thursday February 14, 2008 Digital TV's Dirty Secrets
Readers of Home Cinema Choice #153 may have been looking here for the full version of our best and worst of digital TV performers (page 49). Don't panic – the data will appear here in a week or so. We just like to give people time to soak up the mag...
Tuesday February 12, 2008 Home Cinema Top Tips Needed
Do you have a hot home cinema tip you'd like to share with fellow readers of Home Cinema Choice? Have you found out that caveats in an audioscape can be solved with the cunning use of a household object? Or have you devised an ingenious system to calibrate a...
Blu-ray price cuts
Whilst browsing the PC World website, HCC stumbled across Samsung's BD-P1000 Blu-ray player, selling for a frankly unbelievable price of £149. Unfortunately, the marked down first-gen deck appears to have sold out. Did anyone manage to grab one?
Even if...
Wednesday February 06, 2008 Batman goes Blu-ray
Warner Bros has announced the first Batman Blu-ray titles.
Batman Begins: Limited Collector's Edition Gift Set will arrive on DVD and Blu-ray in the US this Autumn. The Batman Anthology (containing the four Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher movies) will also...
Tuesday February 05, 2008 Hi-fi from the Star Wars universe
If you can’t quite stretch to the £2000 Nikko R2-D2 home entertainment system, perhaps a Darth Vader CD player/radio is a more affordable prospect. Featuring an FM radio and CD player, the unit stands an impressive 12" high. It can be powered by batteries or a...
Wednesday January 02, 2008 First look: Jason Statham in Death Race remake
HCC fave Jason Statham is starring in the HCC not fave Paul W S Anderson' remake of the classic movie Death Race. And here is the first pic...
Fans can see Statham drive like a loon from September 28, 2008. In the meantime, look out for JS in the...
Thursday December 27, 2007 Rock out with Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock
If you didn't manage to get your hands on a Wii this Christmas, then the next best thing is definitely this innovative, interactive slice of rock'n'roll genius.
Plumb your Xbox 360 into an AV receiver, sling on your plastic axe and hit those power chords!...
Tuesday December 25, 2007 Merry Xmas from Home Cinema Choice!
Ah, Christmas. A time for giving, sharing, eating, drinking and watching new movies on your massive screen. Enjoy it!
Saturday December 22, 2007 The 12 days of a home cinema Christmas
On the twelth day of Christmas, we watched on DVD*...
Twelve Angry Men (1957)
R2 DVD - £12.99
Ocean's 11 (2001)
HD DVD/Blu-ray - £25.99
"10" (1979)
R2 DVD - £13.99
9 1/2 Weeks (1985)
R2 DVD - £12.99
Eight Legged Freaks...
Friday December 21, 2007 Exclusive interview: Blade Runner: Final Cut
In his role as a DVD producer, Charles De Lauzirika has worked with Sam Raimi, David Lynch, James Cameron, the Coen brothers, David Fincher, Robert Rodriguez and Ridley Scott, overseeing restorations and the creation of bonus features. HCC managed to catch up...
