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Philips’ SoundHub and SoundBar recreate that cinema experience

Get the cinema experience at home courtesy of Philips

If you’re going to kit your TV out with audio enhancing tech, you’ve got to make sure you do it properly. Philips’ SoundBar and SoundHub Home Cinema speakers sound like they’re up to the challenge.

When it comes to a surround sound system, looking good should be high up on the priority list – right next to awesome audio quality. Enter the SoundHub system, complete with 360Sound. What this essentially means is you get three premium drivers; one front-facing and two firing audio from the sides. So it pumps audio from all angles, thus delivering that 2.1 cinema-like surround audio experience. Best of all, it connects to your TV with a single cable, so there’ll be no fiddly wires to grapple with.

The SoundBar goes for a completely different look entirely. Plus, it’s the first ever SoundBar to stream movies directly from a tablet to the TV. It sounds great for tackling huge libraries of movies on hard drives – all you need is DLNA functionality. It also helps that its design is pretty slick and ideal for modern living (read: small flats). There’s even an additional subwoofer to make those action scenes seem just that little bit more real. If you’re still concerned a 30in SoundBar is going to take up too much room, Philips is also launching a mini SoundBar, for a smaller surround sound experience. Philips promises amazing sound for its size, which it puts down to its FullSound and DoubleBass technology.

Pricing and official launch details are scant, but as soon as we hear something, you’ll be the first to know about it.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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