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Sony confirms on-sale dates and pricing for 4K Bravia TV
Team HCC  |  May 15, 2013  |  0 comments

Sony has confirmed that its new X9 4K TV will be arriving on UK shores this Summer. Priced around £4,000 for the 55in model and £6,000 for the 65in version, the Bravia X9 Ultra HD TV will be available at UK stores from mid-June. In addition, the consumer electronics giant is already taking pre-orders for the screens at www.sony.co.uk.

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News
Richer Sounds to host TV shootout in Leicester
Team HCC  |  May 15, 2013  |  0 comments

The Leicester branch of hi-fi, home cinema and TV retailer Richer Sounds has announced a special free event designed to let you see some of the best TVs currently available.

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DVD
Black Mirror: Series 2 review
Anton van Beek  |  May 15, 2013  |  0 comments

This second series of Charlie Brooker's techno-Twilight Zone isn't quite as strong as the first, but still makes for thought-provoking TV.

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Loudspeakers
Acoustic Energy 3-Series 5.1 review
Ed Selley  |  May 14, 2013  |  0 comments

Acoustic Energy is best known for helping start the high-end standmount market with the original AE1, but it's been an equally potent force in multichannel systems over the years as well. The Neo Compact package I reviewed last year was an inspired pairing of three pairs of the Compact bookshelf speaker and a Neo subwoofer. Certainly, it was a bit of a bargain.

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Games
Gears of War: Judgement review
Anton van Beek  |  May 13, 2013  |  0 comments

Surely nobody really expected that a franchise as lucrative as Microsoft's third-person shooter would end when Marcus Fenix hung up his gun at the end of Gears of War 3? After all, the Locust War established that there was a whole universe of narrow corridors and waist-high barriers for soldiers to battle through...

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Blu-ray
The Impossible review
Steve May  |  May 09, 2013  |  0 comments

Move over Roland Emmerich, director Juan Antonio Bayona has delivered a disaster movie for a fraction of the cost of your popcorn epics, and it’s a magnitude more terrifying.

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News
Pioneer lifts lid on new entry-level AVRs
Team HCC  |  May 08, 2013  |  0 comments

Pioneer has announced its 2013 range of VSX AV receivers, with six models set to hit shops in June with prices from £200 to £550.

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News
Sharp to unleash 80in and 70in LED TVs
Mark Craven  |  May 07, 2013  |  0 comments

The goggle-eyed boffins at Sharp have today announced the launch of new flagship 80in and 70in TVs, making the Japanese brand the go-to option for ultra-bigscreen fanatics not interested in an Ultra HD display.

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Accessories
Arcam rLink review
Ed Selley  |  May 05, 2013  |  0 comments

You own one of the latest crop of BD players and you’ve noticed that as well as playing just about any video format you can think of, it can also act as a gateway to your audio collection, pulling files off networked hardware. The only problem is that it sounds a bit lacking. Can anything be done?

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Pro-Install
Drive-in theatre - Jason Plato's home cinema
Mark Craven  |  May 04, 2013  |  0 comments

The professional cinema installs featured in HCC sometimes look like part of the lifestyle of the rich and famous – and 
here that's most certainly the case. 
This impressive 16th century barn conversion 
in Oxfordshire, brought up to 21st century standards via some cutting-edge home automation and AV hardware, is where British Touring Car legend and Fifth Gear presenter Jason Plato kicks back after a hard day behind the wheel. Because, although driving cars at ridiculous speeds is his passion, he's also a bit of an AV freak, and has been known to pop down to the Bristol Sound & Vision Show in the past.

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