We shall see, and to the extent that you have described how the BeoRemote is excellent, of course i agree.

It all comes down to how ambitious you think B&O are with a BS5 / hub.

Everything about the company recently suggests they are scaling back their ambitions - and all they need now is a bridge between a 3rd party TV and B&O speakers. The Almando multi-play box achieves that - i'd look more at (an expanded version of ) that type of thing as a guide to what a future Beo-Hub will likely be.

I've made my point about not expecting another BR One many times - again, i hope i'm wrong. But the current BR One, however lovely it is, risks being a bit disjointed from the 3rd party TV UI. And for that reasons, i suspect the hub remote will be more like those that come with AR receivers. They simply wont be able to make a single BR One that can do, for example, all the picture settings of a TV by either LG, Loewe, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony.  

So its not a question of will or desire on my part, just a logical projection of their seeming withdrawal from the TV business.

A post BV world will more than likely mean the end of one remote.

Millemissen wrote:

Jeff wrote:

I think the question is, can Tymphany do better. 😕

Tymphany is the manufacturer (in the Czech Republic), not the maker.

There are still quite a few people working in Struer/DK.

MM

Keep shoveling MM, there's got to be a pony in there somewhere! 😎

@jeff

I invite you to join me to the Annual Meeting  (of B&O) this fall...in Struer.

Then you will get the chance to ride that pony - ye-haaaa!

MM

Millemissen wrote:

@jeff

I invite you to join me to the Annual Meeting  (of B&O) this fall...in Struer.

Then you will get the chance to ride that pony - ye-haaaa!

MM

Possible reasons to hold Annual Meeting in Struer:

1. Opportunity to manage illusion by renting locals, per Northern Korea, to pose as workers for photo opportunities?

2. The remaining employees have never been to China to see a manufacturing site?

3. Because 90% of the remaining dealers can easily drive to Struer?

4. Because there is meeting space available and Owners will be around to host Estate Agents afterward?

5. Meals will feature a wide array of local sheep recipes?

poodleboy wrote:

Millemissen wrote:

@jeff

I invite you to join me to the Annual Meeting  (of B&O) this fall...in Struer.

Then you will get the chance to ride that pony - ye-haaaa!

MM

Possible reasons to hold Annual Meeting in Struer:

1. Opportunity to manage illusion by renting locals, per Northern Korea, to pose as workers for photo opportunities?

2. The remaining employees have never been to China to see a manufacturing site?

3. Because 90% of the remaining dealers can easily drive to Struer?

4. Because there is meeting space available and Owners will be around to host Estate Agents afterward?

5. Meals will feature a wide array of local sheep recipes?

 

😁

6. Plenty of parking available for attendees in the now vacant employee parking lot.

7. Door prize of a Moment system might well scare some attendees off though.

beojeff wrote:

It amazes me how certain members on the forum are so against the concept of a BeoSystem 5.

It amazes me that people on here even vaguely hold out any hope that B&O is working on such a device. It's simply not going to happen. At all. Sadly this board is left with a few wisful-thinking pipe-dreaming people who hold out for products they'd love to see, not will realistically happen.

I was a developer in the last days of the Amiga. In 1997 the market was still relatively strong, depite no company producing a new Amiga, no new development, nothing. But, forums were left with users who were dreaming of huge new innovative products and listing all the new technologies and reasons why it was going to happen. By 1999 even the wishful thinking people had moved on. We'll be there in a year or so from now.

The entire reason that a BeoSystem 5 will NEVER happen is that B&O has a) limited resources, b) sacked most of the development staff, c) has publicly committed to working with LG and d) has even said that LG is now responsible for picture processing. B&O would focus on the audio. And they are not producing a BeoSystem 5 (as an audio-only product).

I dont need video processing.  My hope for a future Beosystem 5 (or beohub if you want) is a surround processor with hdmi switching and a good PUC solution.  

Thomas

Millemissen wrote:

My question is - can B&O do better?

Why shouldn’t they?

MM

And this is exactly what so many have been banging on for for so long, while others (names wirhheld) clung on to the fantasy that B&O were still viable TV manufacturers or else twisting the words to pretend they were asking for a BS5!

Jeff wrote:

😁

6. Plenty of parking available for attendees in the now vacant employee parking lot.

7. Door prize of a Moment system might well scare some attendees off though.

Yes, by the time when the meeting is held - I can even arrange a lot for your private plane.....just in case.

There are no ‘door prizes’ - please sign up for a Beoworld membership instead.

I’ll get you free access to a visiting tour, though.

MM

Millemissen wrote:

Jeff wrote:

😁

6. Plenty of parking available for attendees in the now vacant employee parking lot.

7. Door prize of a Moment system might well scare some attendees off though.

Yes, by the time when the meeting is held - I can even arrange a lot for your private plane.....just in case.

There are no ‘door prizes’ - please sign up for a Beoworld membership instead.

I’ll get you free access to a visiting tour, though.

MM

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