A feature-heavy solution for a 3D living room, which builds in Bluetooth streaming of tunes from a smartphone, alongside enveloping surround sound

This Sony home theatre system looks the business, but can it cut the audio mustard?

A set of small speakers with a big heart

Panasonic's slimline 3D Blu-ray system majors on picture and sound quality

Kaleidescape's market-leading networked playback system now embraces Blu-ray

This 3D Blu-ray all-in-one system from Samsung works wonders with high frequencies, but it should drop the '7.1' tag

The upmarket BDS800 is a well-turned out, all-in-one home cinema system, but is it more style icon than trendsetter?

The British brand's latest Blu-ray and home cinema proposition is all about warmth and accuracy

We audition Sony's do-it-all home theatre system

We rate this 3D capable, 7.1-channel all-in-one system

This inexpensive, 3D-capable Blu-ray home theatre system is lacking a little lustre

Expensive it may be, but we think this ultra-stylish 7.1-channel all-in-one system is worth saving the pennies for

We question the fundamental claims of LG's Blu-ray soundbar

This 5.1 BD system is good-looking, but lacks grunt

We take a step upmarket to sample the class-leading MS1-HD media server

NAD updates their flagship home cinema system with a modular design principle

Imposing and unapologetic, Onkyo's THX-blessed trio is a cinephiles dream system

Samsung's 5.1 BD system has everything you need

Alone they're impressive – together: unbeatable. Here are two great parts that make an even better whole

The home-cinema-in-a-bar category is a relatively new phenomenon that comes in a wide variety of flavours, from Yamaha’s sophisticated multi-driver Sound Projectors to more simplistic affairs, such as this variation from Samsung.

Unboxing Samsung’s HT-BD2 is much like making love to an Eskimo; there’s an awful lot of unwrapping to be done before you get to the tasty bits. It’s 7.1, you see, equating to eight speakers in total, with one being a meaty subwoofer. Plus, the main unit is a combination Blu-ray player and receiver. And its massive! You’ll certainly need to reserve some considerable real estate under your TV, round the back of your sofa and, er, everywhere else really.

If you own one of Pioneer’s gorgeous Kuro plasma TVs and need a home cinema system to match, this is just the ticket. It comprises a DVD/HDD recorder, a 400W subwoofer receiver, four compact satellite speakers and a display unit that accepts commands from the remote control, enabling you to hide the other components out of sight.

It’s not that often a speaker brand comes back from the dead. But that’s just what has happened with MK Sound. The company logo may well be familiar to regular readers, as it recalls the once-famous Miller & Kreisel speaker brand.

Predictably, it was Sony that launched the first all-in-one cinema system in the UK in the early days of DVD, and quickly realised that it was shifting more DVD systems than stand-alone players and making much healthier margins.

Sony's latest cosmetic quirk could land it a place in the Guinness Book of Records. The DAV-IS10 features the smallest satellite speakers ever seen on a home cinema system, each one being the size of a golf ball, so they can be discretely integrated into your room's décor.