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

Speakers

Advantages: Goopd sound
Disadvantages:

...Well I had seen a review on this kit in what hi fi and fell in love with the speakers purely on looks and others opinions. Big mistake, after saving the required £600 I bundled them into the car without a full demo from my local dealer, when I unpacked the sats I found a few badly finished edges and a lack of detailed set up instructions for the sub. Still full of excitement I continued with my quest and set the speakers round the room and wired them up to my amp. I spun a first disc with my heart racing for joy, then it dropped like a bomb. The speakers sounded like something pinched off a matsui mini system. I fiddled with the settings on my amp, then the array of controls on the back of the sub but to no avail, I contacted the supplier who said I needed to run the speakers in for about 36 hrs. 48 hrs later of continual running in...

itchylegs 09.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Pioneer SV-50-A Home Cinema Speaker System

home cinema for your viewing

Advantages: stylish, reliable, clear sound
Disadvantages: none

...I bought my cinema pack just under a year ago and it?s still in working order. It has a modern appearance so its still looks quite new. JVC?s Cinema Pack contains all you need to turn your living room into a fully fledged mini-audiotorium ? you just supply the screen, the form of a TV or projector. The DVD player, surround sound amplifier and speakers are all here. The DVD player and amplifier/control centre come as separate stackable units with the connectors necessary to join them and connect a TV. The DVD player is JVC?s XV-E1112 and is finished with a smart silver/grey front and well positioned buttons. It is capable of playing a wide range of formats including DVD, Svcd and VCD for video and MP3 music for audio. Both CD-R and CD-RW discs are also supported. The control centre deals with the surround sound amplifying...

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

Sony Home Cinema Speaker Upgrade Kit

Advantages: Excellent quality Brilliant sound good range of connections
Disadvantages: No in built DVD, audio not carried through the HDMI connector

...The Sony HTSF1000 Home Theatre upgrade kit was a purchase I made in June to round out my home cinema set up. The rest of my set up is as follows: • Sony Bravia KDL-S32A12U 32" HD ready TV - for more information please see my review of this set • Sony RDR-GX210 DVD Recorder • Sky HD box with integrated Sky+ • A nice glass stand from John Lewis! The whole system has been hooked up together since my Sky HD arrived in July, however I had been using the speaker system prior to that with my DVD recorder. It is important to not early on that this system does not include a DVD player or recorder, which many Home Theatre systems include. If however you already have a DVD player or recorder that you are happy with, then this system is an excellent option to consider. Specification The specification...

davidm385 18.08.2006 (17.08.2006) · Read review
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Review of Sony HT-SF 1000

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)

A world of cinema... for £162

Advantages: Great facilities, great Unlimited deal
Disadvantages: Expensive

...I am fortunate to live right next to a large Shopping Centre, that not only contains many good stores but is itself surrounded by many other retailers, restaurants, cinemas, etc. My favourite attraction: the Cineworld multiplex. Cineworld is Britain's second largest multiplex cinema operator in the United Kingdom, with 74 cinemas and over 800 screens. It also has one cinema in Jersey and another in the Republic of Ireland. Its first cinema opened in 1996, and the company has since integrated the UGC cinema chain. I like the "ambiance" at my local Cineworld. There is another huge cinema complex down the road, and even though everything in it is more spacious (lobby, screen rooms, washrooms) and boasts a slicker, more sophisticated decor, it feels colder and less welcoming. Cineworld, on the other hand, has...

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

Excellent centre speaker for home cinema

Advantages: Sounds great, looks good as well
Disadvantages: 'Unobtrusive' it isn't !

...Home cinema is becoming increasingly popular, but do you buy a package, or 'roll your own'. For me, it was a 'no brainer' I'd spent quite enough on a new amplifier and speakers for the hi-fi and wasn't prepared to lash out on another set of boxes just for the sake of it. Besides, 'all in one solutions' anr notorious for cutting corners to keep the price down, and speakers have always been one of the first components to suffer. Eltax only make speakers, so their reputation is on the line if they try to hard to cut costs. Complementing my Eltax Liberty 5 speakers perfectly - this unit marked my transition to proper 'home cinema' The single biggest difference between 'Stereo TV' and 'Home Cinema' is the centre speaker. Home cinema extracts film dialogue and plays it through the middle speaker, leaving the outside...

dobieg 01.04.2003 · Read review
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Review of Liberty Centre

Home Cinema Heaven!

Advantages: Big screen, great picture, surround sound, sleek
Disadvantages: Need persuading to leave the sofa!

...! How to The instruction book is lengthy and detailed and even I managed to comprehend it! The 2 scart plugs on the rear are easily accessibleAlso on the back: the antennae; pcmcia card slot; 2 x hdmi slots; 1 digital audio out; 1 rs232c in; 1pc in; 1 audio in; component in slots; s video slot; 3 coloured inputs for dvd / gamimg etc all labelled and accessible should you so desire! Listen The speaker sound is fantastic. The speaker runs along the front of the screen along the base. It has surround sound and is very vivid. Cinema Without dominating the room in its off position, when in use this TV is like having the cinema at home. The picture has strong colours, there is no picture fade anywhere on the screen and the small frame around the edge means that the picture seems really big. Can it get better? This huge TV...

Cutecandy 06.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of LG 42 LF 66

A Cinema At Home

Advantages: Very large screen
Disadvantages: No PC input and DVI input (for a Digital Video Interface)

...Watching television shows has never been easy when what you have is only a small television at home because you have to be at the center of the screen to view the images very clear and it will be worst if you are a big family because you have no choice but to compress in the center. Unlike having a very big one like the remote-controlled Philips 37 PFL 5522 D which that has a very large screen of 37 inches wide, and displaying a highly defined and colorful images in a 1366 x 768 pixels resolution, you can watch at it with all your comfort at an angle of up to 178 degrees and at a distance of up to three times the size of the screen. Being formatted at 16:9, it would be very suitable for building a home cinema. As for its brightness and contrast, it has 500 cd/m2 and 6000:1 respectively, which is brighter enough for your visual...

wincanz 17.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Philips 37 PFL 5522 D