Personally, I would not be surprised if a mk2 is launched in the near future to cover the "gaps" BS5 clearly has.

Dissapointed....... 

Utterly disappointed. 

B&O has gone back to component HiFi!  

 That´s exactly what I was thinking. Sad. 

I will reserve my judgement about it's design until I see it at my dealers ( I do love the navigation, from what I've seen so far, though ), but as far as the specs go, there are a couple things bothering me ( I think they've all been pointed out before, but these are the most important to me );

Mainly, the lack of a CD slot is a big minus, especially for their core customers, who don't have the time/energy/knowledge/interest/... to transfer their music from a computer, no matter how easy B&O claim it is. It should work like Olive's products: you put a CD in, it copies it in a lossless format, stores in on it's hard drive and ejects the CD ( you do need an internet connection for CD names and artwork, but from what I understand it already has that and it can be put to a better use than just software updates. The biggest problem here I think is the artwork, because as far as I can understand you can't get it with CDDB information, but I'm sure they could find a solution if they wanted - for instance like Delicious Library gets it from Amazon.

Then there is the hard drive size ( 1TB wouldn't cost much more, but I'm sure many would sleep better, knowing they have the extra space ). The other things - less important in my view: the lack of the FLAC format, it has .wav, so nothing to complain really and that 2-way remote, not a necessity, but it would be nice.

Utterly disappointed myself, too ... clearly overpromises and underdelivers - done by a designer, not a engineer that's obvious.

  no wireless/digital Masterlink

no smooth integration with existing products 

still need for wires from base to head unit 

no touch screen 

the most expensive mp3 add-on I can think of - not a full B&O audio product: only a component for digital media

you cannot call a product that ignores existing standards (DVD, CD, blue-ray) a good user experience!

too expensive

what the heck took them so long to get it out (not even shelfware, yet - prob. only spring 2009) 

But I am soooo happy to have invested into my BC2 with DVD and DAB last year ;-) It's connected to BeoPort and my old PowerBook I use as server now. And I have an AppleTV hidden away behind the BV5. So I have access to both cover art, if I want, Beo4 access, if I want, two-way remote (via iPhone) if I want. And still all this is less expensive than the new "product"

MOTS is just unappealing to me.  I am 31 and consider myself to be quite modern when it comes to music etc but find this as a feature totally unappealing and to me all MOTS does it create an intelligent playlist which is more conveniant than anything. 

As it stands, BS5 could become a very expensive system if this is to be the hub of all future B&O products as and when they are introduced.