Beosystem 3 Upgrade

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Is there any talk of the BS3 being upgraded for HDMI 1.3 and ability to decode the High Definition sound formats ?

No

It will need some reworking to do that and given B&O dont have a blue ray player and they tend not to support third party products very well, dont hold your breath on this being done anytime soon!

You can by lots of AV-recievers with HDMI 1.3 for few hunderd euro's but the Beosystem 3 that almost cost 7000 euros has not got it and won 't come very very soon?

How low can you sink as a premiumbrand if you do not offer that for your clients who want it. These are the things that does the name as a premiumbrand...... no good!!!

By the way, this is true for almost all High-End receivers like Lexicon, Mark Levison etc. According to my knowledge none of them has HDMI 1.3...

Karsten 

Maybe, but all the topmodels from Denon, Onkyo etc, offer HDMI 1.3 for more then a year now.

to be fair, Denon, Onkyo & Yamaha ship a different volume of their units than the high-end niche players. So different R&D budget and also the need to show potential customers the latest and greatest in technology in a high competetive market.

But in real life, how many of the B&O customers care of HDMI 1.3 today? Or even know waht HDMI is...

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see HDMI 1.3 in my BS3, however, today, I can not take any advantage of it. 

Karsten 

true - maybe with hdmi 1.3 it will take a little while longer before everyone can/will use it, but there are other features, which there is a real need for i.e. 1080p/24fps - when you have both players and panels, which supports it.

Anyone know if 24fps is there yet or in the pipeline? 

1080p/24 fprs will be supported later this spring according to B&O in Struer. Sw 4.12 does NOT support 24 fprs.

/Martin

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