B&O Desing by Philips ?

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Frankenberg
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298 posts
Posted December 12, 2019 at 18:38 GMT
#2130557

I saw that in the current Philips advertising in commercial television:

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did philips steal a design idea from B & O ??
Why is not there such a retro design alternative from B & O at an affordable price?

 

This OLED TV is available for 55" and 65".

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L1NO (archived2)
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Posted December 12, 2019 at 20:07 GMT
#2130558

What design idea?

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moxxey (archived2)
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Posted December 12, 2019 at 22:00 GMT
#2130559

W.Frankenberg wrote:

was a revised version of Beovision 7 40 with Beolab 7 2!

Isn't this similarity immediately recognizable?

Erm, not at all, no.

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w5bno123 (archived2)
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574 posts
Posted December 12, 2019 at 23:07 GMT
#2130560
moxxey wrote:

Erm, not at all, no.

Agreed. Looks like a cheap Philips OLED TV with Hue lights stuck on the back of

it with a third party Soundbar. The BV7 40 was a design statement, one that cannot be replicated with super thin OLED panels.
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berger (archived2)
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380 posts
Posted December 13, 2019 at 01:31 GMT
#2130561

Philips have their own Ambilight tech, its pretty cool actually. I had a Designline 55 Glass panel TV years ago.

 

If you want to see what B&O copied, look at the Loewe Individual Compose Speaker for the pole stand. Then again you can say Loewe copied the BV7...

 

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ryangirod (archived2)
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Posted December 13, 2019 at 04:55 GMT
#2130562

Looks like a cheap Philips OLED TV.

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L1NO (archived2)
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260 posts
Posted December 13, 2019 at 07:33 GMT
#2130563

The Ambilight part is great. But the

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ProGram
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530 posts
Posted December 13, 2019 at 08:12 GMT
#2130564
Looks nice, also this one
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ProGram
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Posted December 13, 2019 at 08:14 GMT
#2130565
Looks nice, also this one https://www.philips.de/c-p/65OLED984_12/oled-9-series-4k-uhd-oled-plus-android-fernseher-b-w-sound-mit-4-seitigem-ambilight
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