One of the best sequels of all time, Back to the Future Part II doubles-down on the time travel hijinks, looking even more impressive than the first movie in 4K, with Dolby Vision and Atmos leaving it in the best shape it's ever been.
The NAD T 778 introduces a new design concept including a large TFT touchscreen, support for Dolby Atmos and DTS:X along with Dirac Live room correction and BluOS streaming. So is it any good?
Robert Zemeckis' 1985 all-time classic Back to the Future jumps onto Ultra HD Blu-ray with mostly impressive native 4K Dolby Vision and Atmos, as part of a lavish must-have trilogy set.
Marantz's new SR7015 9-channel AV amplifier boasts every feature imaginable, including support for 8K. But do all these new bells and whistles justify an upgrade?
We take a look at the first-ever 48-inch CX OLED TV from LG to see if it can match the 55- and 65-inch versions for image quality. Plus, is this the perfect screen size for HDMI 2.1 gaming? Let's find out...
The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix) TV Show Review
by Tom Davies
Mike Flanagan steps back to produce the second season of his successful 'The Haunting of...' anthology. But between a poorly observed script and terminal lack of scares, it's unlikely to match the popularity of its predecessor.
More Mad Men-lite than For All Mankind, Disney+'s first and only non-Star Wars series of note - courtesy of National Geographic - is a visually lavish period piece embalmed in rousing, patriotic chords, but it feels like it may be a long ride with little new or interesting to add.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced that Peter Jackson's The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies will finally be available on 4K disc from 30th November.
Twenty-eight films into their 4-film distribution deal with Adam Sandler, and Netflix churns out another harmless bit of all-star nonsense, repurposing a spin on Sandler's Waterboy character for this very mildly engaging stupidity.
Zack Snyder's stylish 2007 adaptation of Frank "Sin City" Miller's iconic Spartan graphic novel 300 gave us the definitive angry action man in Gerard Butler, and now charges onto the definitive 4K format with a thunderous new Atmos track.
Beating its way through a dual character study and psychological drama, Whiplash is a tremendous film which deservedly landed actor J. K. Simmons his first Oscar, now earning a 4K and Atmos upgrade from Sony.
Amazon recently launched a whole host of new hardware but for TV fans the standout announcement was the arrival of the next-gen Fire TV Stick and the Fire TV Stick Lite along with a redesigned Fire TV interface.
Netflix's franchise-in-the-making adaptation of the first book in Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes series affords us the teen-centric Sherlock movie nobody asked for, but also gives Millie Bobby Brown another opportunity to utterly shine.
The TCL 65C815K is a 65-inch edge-lit LED LCD TV which uses a 100Hz VA panel - is compatible with all the major HDR formats currently available - and features Freeview Play and Android TV. So is it the bargain it appears to be?
More American Horror Story than anything even tangentially related to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ryan Murphy's Ratched is full of Bernard Herrmann's sound and Sarah Paulson's fury, but offers nothing new, and plenty old.
Antonio Campos dives once again into the causes and repercussions of trauma with his adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock's deconstruction of small-town America's reliance on Christianity.
The Panasonic HZ1000 has a new 2020 Pro HDR OLED panel featuring Filmmaker Mode with intelligent sensor, Dolby Vision IQ and Dolby Atmos sound, as well as Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and HLG HDR formats.
The Sony A8 is the company's latest 4K OLED TV that has Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, HDR10, HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma) and now includes X-Motion Clarity 120Hz Black Frame Insertion, IMAX Enhanced certification and Netflix Calibrated mode. So it has everything, bar the Master Series title...
The Arcam AVR30 AV receiver finally arrives for review with seven channels of built-in Class G amplification and 9.1.6-channel processing. There's Dolby Atmos, DTS:X IMAX Enhanced and Auro-3D decoding, along with eARC, built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and support for Apple AirPlay 2 and Google Chromecast. But was it worth the wait?
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix) Movie Review
by Tom Davies
Charlie Kaufman returns with an adaptation of Iain Reid's mind and genre-bending novel and it's his most assured directorial effort yet. A film about wanting to break up with someone...Sort of...Not really.
It's easy to see why Disney want to leverage a premium price for this epic wuxia martial arts romp; it's a storming live-action adaptation of the animated classic.
The Fifth Element celebrated its 20th Anniversary with an impressive 4K bow but, three years later, Studiocanal somehow tops it with a Dolby Vision-enhanced 4K version in the UK.
Samsung's new flagship soundbar the HW-Q950T applies 9.1.4 channels to Dolby Atmos and DTS:X decoding, plus it adds eARC, and built-in Amazon Alexa; but is it enough to beat the competition?
Philips announces OLED+935 flagship TV for 2020 (Prices added)
by Andy Bassett
Philips tends to hold a little something back TV and audio wise for the second half of the year and despite the challenges thrown at the electronics industry in 2020, it has now pulled a new flagship TV out of the hat - the OLED+935.
Philips recently relaunched its premium Fidelio range of audio products and it’s not just limited to headphones as two new high performance soundbars join the brand - the B95 and B97.
The jury's out on whether this will reignite the fire for cinemas, with Nolan's latest suitably epic and tremendously Bond in moments, but also painfully convoluted, and frustratingly obtuse, robbing viewers of a completely immersive, engaged ride, and sapping tension as a result.
The LG CX is the mid-range sweet spot in the company's 2020 OLED TV line-up with Filmmaker Mode, Dolby Vision IQ and improved calibration controls. This is a review of the 55-inch screen size.
The Hisense U8QF is the company's latest range-topping 4K ULED TV. It features a 132 zone FALD backlight with Dolby Vision and HDR10+ and a new JBL sound system. So can this latest Hisense TV push the boundaries of the mid-range TV market in the UK? Let's find out...
The Panasonic HZ2000 is the company's latest flagship 4K OLED TV with a custom pro panel, Filmmaker Mode and Dolby Vision IQ. It is also expensive, so does it live up to the flagship hype? Let's find out.
Where should Dolby Atmos ceiling speakers be placed?
by Andy Bassett
Yes, yes... in the ceiling, we get it. But what's the best position for just a pair of speakers and would you have to then relocate them if you later expanded to four? And how wide can you make the main listening position so the whole family can enjoy the overhead effects?
Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt unsurprisingly elevate Netflix's latest superpowered product, a fun enough, rap-fuelled bit of typically baggy but pleasantly bombastic Friday night frivolity.
NAD announces the launch of the T 758 V3i surround sound receiver, with Dolby Atmos, DTS Master Audio, BluOS Hi-Res multi-room audio, Dirac Live, 4K UHD Video and Apple AirPlay 2 all built-in as standard.