malcolm welborn wrote:

what is the difference between beo5 and beo6

Well, on the "hardware-side" it is just a backchannel for showing covers of cds on your Beo6 in combination with Beosound 5.

BUT what really thrills me is what will happen, once the protocol is "reverse-engineered".

You could integrate a Videoserver in your masterlink-system just by adding a piece of software on your Mac/PC (think of Linkplayer - with covers of available movies shown on your Beo6, or the actual temperature of all rooms in your house, or the picture of the webcam in front of your house shown on your Beo 6 when somebody rings at the door)

The possibilities are endless - and in opposite to your phone that is often not available as a remote when you leave, the Beo6 is always around where you have your living area!

It will also have WiFi to be used with the upcoming newer generation of TV's

Tim wrote:

malcolm welborn wrote:

what is the difference between beo5 and beo6

Well, on the "hardware-side" it is just a backchannel for showing covers of cds on your Beo6 in combination with Beosound 5.

BUT what really thrills me is what will happen, once the protocol is "reverse-engineered".

You could integrate a Videoserver in your masterlink-system just by adding a piece of software on your Mac/PC (think of Linkplayer - with covers of available movies shown on your Beo6, or the actual temperature of all rooms in your house, or the picture of the webcam in front of your house shown on your Beo 6 when somebody rings at the door)

The possibilities are endless - and in opposite to your phone that is often not available as a remote when you leave, the Beo6 is always around where you have your living area!

I completely agree. I'm thinking how nice an app for the iPad will be!

Those first few posts make the Beo5 sound like a disaster.

I hope the Beo6 makes it, and hope this reverse engineering will happen quick. It sounds like it will really help B&O integrate some much needed newer technology and features.

Yes, "e" means Euro.

I asked my dealer if he see a point for me upgrading to the Beo6 from Beo5. Not if I don't have a Beosound 5 he said.

leogenghis wrote:

Will this Beo6 come with programming software freely available to the consumer?

Personally I believe this will not be the case. This is due to a very simple fact - the configuration of your Beo5/6 is specifically adjusted to the needs of the customer - by loading something the authorized dealer created will delete the original setup resulting in a remote that will not work any more with the setup.

But it is an open secret, that the software is leaked to the customers that want to set the Beo5/6 up by themselfes. The reason for this is very simple: if they mess up the setup B&O can not be responsible what happened.

It is very funny that when I got my Beo5 the technicians had no idea how it worked and gave me the software to handle it by myself and after fiddling around with it for a while, it was quite fun to be honest