AVForums Podcast

This week, Phil reports back from the Philips' OLED+908 launch event on the latest TV to sport MLA technology. While Ed examines the Avid Accent integrated amp and looks at what really makes an audio review useful for a consumer.

This week Mark takes a look at Poirot's A Haunting in Venice and Sleepy Hollow in 4K; Simon discusses why you need the Psycho Collection on 4K and how Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse might be one of the best films of the year and one of the best 4K releases of the year too, whilst I check out some streaming movies, wave 2 of The Film Vault Collection with Apollo 13's 4K set, and revisit Batman: Mask of the Phantasm in 4K, spurring us to look at some of the greatest - and worst - animated Batman movies.

This week, Phil looks at Panasonic's flagship MZ2000 OLED TV to discover whether the MLA and heatsink technology onboard push peak brightness past its rivals. The Yamaha Aventage RX-A4A AV receiver and REL 212/SX subwoofer are also up for review and Ed sizes up the New Classic NSC 222 and NAP 250 preamp and amp duo from Naim. There's also the usual round-up of all of the latest AV and Hi-Fi news.

This week we take a look at Fast X on 4K, The Wicker Man's 50th Anniversary 4K set, and Blood and Black Lace 4K, plus the latest TV shows, with Mark Dacascos entering Bruce Lee's Warrior Season 3, the return of Apple's Invasion, and an update on Star Wars - Ahsoka, whilst we review The Last Voyage of the Demeter, unceremoniously pulled from UK cinemas and likely to land on streaming at some time in the future instead, and take a look at some of the best (and worst) Dracula movies.

This week we take a look at the first in DC's new wave, Blue Beetle, and the movie with the best engine noises, Gran Turismo, both at the cinema, Gal Gadot's disposable actioner Heart of Stone on Netflix, and the digital releases of Jennifer Lawrence’s No Hard Feelings and Pixar's Elemental, look at the 4K discs of Razorback and Arrow's Weird Science, more Bruce Lee with Enter the Dragon on 4K, US discs like Kino’s release of Friedkin's To Live and Die in LA and Criterion's Thelma and Louise in 4K, as well as TV and streaming like Justified: City Primeval and the finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2.

This week, Phil reviews his first Panasonic TV of the year, the mid range MZ980 OLED, while the Ascendo ‘sub and sat’ home cinema speakers get an in depth check over from Doug. Martin puts the Primare A35.8 power amp through its paces plus, Phil and Jules talk about Calman Autocal and if it will threaten traditional professional calibration.

This week we take a look at the insane marketing monolith that is Barbenheimer, with Barbie having pulled in over a billion and Oppenheimer extending its run at IMAX; we commiserate the missed opportunity of a Ben Wheatley blockbuster with Meg 2, enjoy the Spider-Verse vibe of the surprisingly good Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle: Mutant Mayhem, and check out Gerard Butler's latest, Kandahar, coming straight to Amazon Prime as an Original; we review Jaws 2 on 4K, and the better-than-it-had-any-right-to-be Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves 4K release; we also look at a few TV shows which have come to an end - like Marvel's disappointing Secret Invasion - and a few that have come back - like Futurama.

This week we preview Hisense's affordable U7K Mini LED TV and look at two rather specialised AV devices; the ZVOX AV157 AccuVoice soundbar and the low profile Earthquake 'Couch Potato' CP8 subwoofer. And we ask why there can be such a price discrepancy between AV products aimed at the UK and US markets. Plus there'll be the usual round up of all of the latest home cinema and Hi-Fi news.

This week we take a look at Tom Cruise's latest must-see hit, the epic Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1, and wonder whether 2023 blockbuster entertainment could get any better than that; we cover Wes Anderson's latest, Asteroid City, which is less engaging than the associated exhibition that’s running to celebrate the film in London, as well as Netflix's Bird Box spin-off, and a number of juicy new 4K releases including Evil Dead: Rise and Arrow's lavish Bruce Lee Box Set, as well as the original Avatar, and we also dig into some decent TV, including the Korean series Bloodhounds and the upcoming second seasons of The Bear and Asimov's Foundation, which promise to be every bit as good as the first.

This week Phil gets hands-on with Panasonic's 2023 TV line-up at the company's UK facility and also gives us his initial impression of Samsung's flagship QN95C mini LED TV. Plus, Doug updates us with his recent reviews of Perlisten's R-Series speaker package and the Marantz Cinema 60 AVR while Ed has a new set of music recommendations. There's also the usual round up of all of the latest AV and Hi-Fi news.