Is there any talk of the BS3 being upgraded for HDMI 1.3 and ability to decode the High Definition sound formats ?
Beosystem 3 Upgrade
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
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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