HOME CINEMA ON A BUDGET? TRY THESE.

Advantages: Small,unobtrusive satellite speakers.
Disadvantages: Not as good as larger speakers.

...I brought my set of tannoys 15 months ago and, at the time,they cost £300.Now,with a little searching around,they can be obtained for under £200. What you get in the box is five satellite speakers(two front,two rear and a centre speaker) plus a seperate powered subwoofer. You also get wall mounted supports for the two front and two rear speakers and all the speaker cables(i changed the cables to 79 stand q.e.d. speaker cable to improve the sound). Setting up the system is relatively easy:you just need an electric drill for the the wall mounted stands and once fitted,you just connect the cables to your home cinema amp. Easy!! Once you have connected everything,it is time to try out the system. My first reaction and i am sure yours will be the same was one of complete disbelief!! The sound quality for such small speakers...

iiyama1000 19.08.2004 (13.02.2005) · Read review
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Review of Tannoy FX 5.1 Home Cinema Speaker System

A headset that offers true 5.1 sound.

Advantages: True 5.1 surround sound, clear quality, built in mic.
Disadvantages: Not very durable and breaks easily.

...Theres not many headsets out there that can say they have full 5.1 surround sound. The medusa 5.1 pulls this off very well and is a fantastic headset for gaming. Let me start of with the packaging. The headset is wonderfully packaged inside the box. Complete with soft lining and ribbon to finnish. A nice surprise. It comes with all the cables that you need, and more that I couldn't work out what they were for. Set up was a little tricky and the manual that it came with wasn't the most helpful. After about an hour or so of fiddling with the cables and doing sound checks I managed to get the 5.1 working, including the microhpone. The quality you get from the headphones is great. Crisp sounds and a decent level of volume. Obviously the 5.1 isn't as distinguished as a full set of surround sound speakers will ever be, but it does...

chowname 23.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Speed-Link SL-8796 Medusa 5.1 Home Edition Headset

home cinema for your viewing

Advantages: stylish, reliable, clear sound
Disadvantages: none

...and includes pass-through Scart connectors for the video. It also includes an RDS-capable FM tuner and an extensive remote control that can be used to control other living room electronics. The remote control can be set to control these electronics. The five satellite speakers are well made and reassuringly weighty. A 20cm cone subwoofer is powered directly from the mains. On full volume this could be used the aid the demolition of buildings. So, it is very very powerful. Not recommend on full volume. I think you?ll find the neighbours will complain. When playing a DVD that 5.1 surround sound, the visual is clear and sharp and with the speakers positioned just right, it?s as if you?re really there. Auxiliary inputs are provided on the control centre to allow for the connection of additional hi-fi separates such as record decks, CD players...

kamfisa 22.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of JVC QP-112AL Home Cinema Packages

Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1

Advantages: Almost everything, price, EMUK101, performance
Disadvantages: None, This card makes it not to go for any other card

...Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 I own this card, bought for connecting my Mercury 5.1 Home Theatre system. This review shares my experiences with this card. First of all let me point out important specs. I don't give full technical specifications as it is easily available in the net. Main specs These are the main specs that are to be highlighted. Patened EMUK 101 Effects Processor Separate EMUK101 Music Synthesis Engine Up to 32MB of samples into host memory for professional music reproduction. Environmental Audio and 3D Audio Technology User selectable settings, Microsoft DirectX sound support, Dolby Pro Logic And EAX support. Supports MPU-401 UART mode, supports AC97 (16 bit). 15 pin Female port for joystick connection. My Opinion This card is really a very good performer. I...

nishanthl21111987 06.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1

MX5 1.8 Sport

Advantages: Dead easy to drop the top (and put it up again)
Disadvantages: Fuel economy coulld be better

...For the Summer I purchased a second hand MX5 1.8 Sports. It was 4 years old and had the matching hard top as well as the permanently fitted cloth soft top. I had done my home work and this was the one that every review was recommending. It is one of the limited edition Sports and as such comes with leather heated seats. First things first, off came the hard top and into storage until winter. The hard top was very simple to remove and the soft top just flips up and down. However neither my wife or I can pull the soft top up when sitting in the seats. One of us has to get out. Both the hard top and soft top have a heated rear window which is essential and in a two seater cabin. The fold up rear wind deflector is not that good so long hair still gets blown forward. Top Gear did an effective demonstration of the difference...

ForlornHope 23.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Mazda MX-5 1.8i

A world of cinema... for £162

Advantages: Great facilities, great Unlimited deal
Disadvantages: Expensive

...are always clean and tidy. Well, I said "almost", so what's amiss? - The. Prices. Lay your eyes on this (and then avert them in horror): Adult (after 5pm Fri, all day Sat-Sun & Bank Hols) £7.60 Adult (after 5pm Mon-Thurs) £6.90 Adult (before 5pm Mon -Fri) £4.90 Child (14 & Under) £4.70 Senior/Student £4.90 Delux Screen £1.00 over adult prices above Bargain Tuesday £4.50 Bargain Delux £5.20 Monday Classic £3.00 Movies for Juniors (selected Sat am films) £1.00 Adult - additional £2.20 for 3D films Child/Student/Senior/Bargain Tuesday - an additional £1.50 for 3D films Adult Bargain Tuesday - an additional £2.20 for 3D films Now, they are not the most expensive cinema tickets around - there are other cinema operators that charge more - but still, considering that the majority of films (and I say it...

babycougar 05.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Cineworld Cinemas

Love cinema? Cineworld Unlimited Card

Advantages: Great value if you use it
Disadvantages: Can be cheaper to pay as you go

...'. The upshot of this was that seeing a film at a 'proper' cinema meant an hour's drive each way to either Braintree or Ipswich. So when I moved to Northamptonshire, the lure of not one but TWO multiplexes in spitting distance was too strong to resist. At that time, the UGC cinema was on my route home from the office and I found it very difficult to drive past and not drop in especially as I was in temporary 'digs' waiting for a house purchase to go through. The UGC became my second home. The first time I visited I discovered the Unlimited scheme. How it works *********** For just £10.99 a month (it was £9.99 when I joined nearly 2 years ago) you can go to the cinema as often as you want. It really is that simple. You can use your local cinema or any other Cineworld cinema, anywhere in the country - with the exception of the 4 West End...

koshkha 15.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Cineworld Cinemas

Credo - I believe in cinema

Advantages: Beautiful, artistic, accessible
Disadvantages: Some may be put off by the subtitling

...FILM ONLY (with brief reference to the Director's Cut) Foreign language films are rarely top of my watch list although I have seen some cracking examples. Invariably those that I like tend to the arty side of cinema. Occasionally there'll be a foreign language breakthrough like Amelié which brings this genre to the attention of a wider audience whereas films such as Tous les Matins du Monde will remain forever in the background. Cinema Paradiso is, however, a film that is both accessible and beautiful and cannot fail to be appreciated by anyone with a love of cinema. That it is subtitled is far from distracting, the photography taking care of the story for the most part and one is quickly subsumed into a world that is all encompassing. Post-war Italy was a very different place to the society in which we live...

CareBear 15.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Cinema Paradiso (DVD)

Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1

Advantages: Great quality sound, cheap
Disadvantages: None whatsoever

...I was in the hunt for a new sound card and picked up this Sound blaster 'Live' by Creative from PC world for just £35. The sound blaster Live is powered by the EMU10K1 digital signal processor which means you get very high sound quality without losing any of the power of your PC which other sound cards and onboard sound chips may take away as they require your PC's processor to power the sound, this ofcourse is great news for gamers who need all the spare power they can get in order to obtain maximum framerates. The Creative sound blaster Live 5.1 has the ability to connect to dolby digital and multi-channel digital speaker systems and provides an awesome quality of surround sound in all its glory through 5.1 (providing you have surround sound speakers ofcourse) so you can experience movies via your PC as tho you were in a cinema...

Rabid 12.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1

Don't Tust the 5.1 on this system

Advantages: Easy setup, simple controls
Disadvantages: Very low output volume on 5.1 setup, completely unbalanced audio

...The speaker look very nice but looks mean very little on a speaker system. The system is relatively easy to setup with the usual 3 jack plugs used on most PC analogue 5.1 surround sound systems. You have the usual routing of the five speaker cables to take care of which plug into the rear of the control unit. The rear speakers have plenty of cable length to use when positioning the where desired. There is also a large, unique lead that connects the sub to the control unit which is also easily attached. The system comes with a rather bulky power supply that could have been neatly tucked away in the sub box, therefore only requiring a figure 8 power cable to do the powering up side of things but this is, after all, a budget system. The Controls on the front of the control unit are very basic and easy to get your head around but are...

Maximus_Doom 01.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Trust Soundforce 5.1 SP-6700T