scognamiglio1969 wrote:

The first 32" b8 was really bad! The 40" was good. The Samsung is good with a bluray but with the other signals are awful. 

Things move on daily - a quote from Whathifi on the latest E8000 series Samsungs -

Any discussion of the Samsung’s Smart TV capability needs to start with the startling level of picture quality it is able to wring from the most marginal of sources. It’s one thing to make the likes of the BBC’s iPlayer, with its 1280 x 720 resolution, look clean, shiny and secure; it’s quite another to scrub the frankly hopeless quality of YouTube (accessed via the 8000’s bright, clear web browser) up to something that’s watchable even on a 55in TV.

Clean, unblocky and relative stable with motion, the Samsung’s far and away the best TV we’ve ever seen when it comes to tarting up inferior quality video content. 

I know I'm not the target for this product. I have a house full of Masterlinked B&O.

I think I like the pictures I have seen.

I cannot buy anything at this price that will not integrate with the rest of B&O

I also cannot understand why it's not possible to design an Optional ML module that will do the trick. Now I've spent a ton of money on the TV, and I'll have to spend more money on the ML.

As it is, I'll just have to ignore V1 and go directly to BV10. If you remember, the BV8 had an optional ML module.

peria wrote:

I know I'm not the target for this product. I have a house full of Masterlinked B&O.

I think I like the pictures I have seen.

I cannot buy anything at this price that will not integrate with the rest of B&O

I also cannot understand why it's not possible to design an Optional ML module that will do the trick. Now I've spent a ton of money on the TV, and I'll have to spend more money on the ML.

As it is, I'll just have to ignore V1 and go directly to BV10. If you remember, the BV8 had an optional ML module.

 

The BV8 was also a BeoVision, under the Bang & Olufsen brand.  This is a TV sold under the B&O Play brand, there will never be master link.

How many people who buy this will ever need master link, compared to the cost of developing the module an associated software?  I would guess its ability to stream music and video is sufficient for nearly all buyers.

The more I read this thread the more grateful I am for sticking with the Avant. It is still wonderful after all of these years. 

Sticking with avant?  That's old fashion tgt365😂

Like I said: I'm not the in the target demographic for this product. That was my opening point.

So I'll stick with Beovisions of which I have two, and the Avant, of which I have one. I get it. I was making a different point.

My opinion does not matter to B&O since they want customers with $500,000 custom installs, but I also don't have to agree with everything that they do. I was simply offering my humble opinion.

I still love the products, and the brand. I think this pathology is regularly identified by professionals as an addiction.😉

I quite like the idea of it being a TV and hifi in one. The design has to grow on me, but I'm warming up to this.

@PhilLondon

Maybe because there are no tweeters for the high frequency range.

Sounds really exciting