Ma2T wrote:

I just wanted to bring to your attention the first link. They reviewed the V1-40, and were very impressed with it.

That's a very good review. I hope B&O's marketing dept make use of some of the quotes from this and other reviews.

"The V1′s audio was so crisp and rich, with such clarity along with deep bass. As I cranked the volume up expecting to hear it strain and lose quality…it didn’t. I must admit I spend a good amount of time just listening and enjoying the rich quality of the sound before I even go to the video side of things. I guess this is why Bang & Olufsen themselves say, “Actually we insist that TVs are just great speakers with a relatively large display!”."

That just makes me melt 🙂. I very much look forward to delivery of my V1-40. I have tried not to try it out to much in the store so I really don't know how the menues work or how the sound sounds like. I wan't to be surprised at home rather than in a store.

I totally agree. I am pretty certain I am going to order a new V1-40 and I can't wait to learn how to use all of the clever features from the comfort of home :)

I have managed to assemble a collection of BeoLabs worthy of the TV - 8000s, 6000s and a 2... hopefully these will work well! Are you going to be running yours standalone Michael or with extra speakers?

Jon

jkhamler wrote:

I totally agree. I am pretty certain I am going to order a new V1-40 and I can't wait to learn how to use all of the clever features from the comfort of home :)

I have managed to assemble a collection of BeoLabs worthy of the TV - 8000s, 6000s and a 2... hopefully these will work well! Are you going to be running yours standalone Michael or with extra speakers?

Jon

Hi Jon! Nice to hear I'm not the only one who wants the seller to stop demonstrating ;) (just kidding). I am going to use my V1 in the bedroom.

Wanted a quality tv with extraordinary sound quality. Mostly I watch frasier before I go to sleep but also like to watch TV or a movie while working on my laptop in bed. I know it sounds strange but I like it :). Also to play music or rent movies with an Apple TV. I think I will rip all my frasier, will&grace and all other series to a NAS-server so I can look at whatever I want without the need of a optical disc player.

I am probably going to use it without extra speakers but I have thought about perhaps a pair of white BOSE-speakers wich I have in storage and a BeoLink Passive, or perhaps Beolab 4000 or something else. But I think it is better to keep the electronics to a minimum in the bedroom :).

//Michael

I couldn't agree more on lack of electronics in the bedroom - they stress me out! I have a bed and a shelf and nothing more - that's minimalism for you (also known as a chronic lack of space)

As my V1 will be the living room/only TV in the house I plan on maxing out the connections and using the media player to the full - I hope it's nice and easy to use!

I mentioned on another thread that the V1 would make a great bedroom/link set and I'd certainly think about getting one if I could work out how to access my sky+ box to play live and recorded programmes.

Anyone got any bright ideas - the only thing I could think of was to use a lintronic/ir sender to main room and then feedback to V1 via normal aerial co-ax which is insitu (ie soln as acessing any non B&O set via the beo4).

jkhamler wrote:

I couldn't agree more on lack of electronics in the bedroom - they stress me out! I have a bed and a shelf and nothing more - that's minimalism for you (also known as a chronic lack of space)

As my V1 will be the living room/only TV in the house I plan on maxing out the connections and using the media player to the full - I hope it's nice and easy to use!

Same here, less is more is my philosophy.

I understand that you want to max it out and I would do that also :). Will probably use the media-solution alot too!

So does anybody want my BeoCenter 2 which will become redundant for me very soon? ;)