Doctor wrote:

Can we please stop reducing every contentious thread down to childish retorts. I refuse to take sides but will start culling posts if I have to.

The original topic was a criticism of the BV10-46 - from experience of the BV10-40, I loved the picture, found some of the operating a little slow and the sound below par. I also think the design the finest interpretation of a flat screen I have seen. Fix the sound, and I would put up with the picture issues (never noticed them) and the operation (all B&O sets seems a little slow these days!)

This is the answer I wanted do write but didn´t find the words. This is also how I feel about my 10-40. I must admit that I think sound is very very acceptable and when compared to my friends flatscreens sound is magnificent. I often use it in speaker 1 mode even though I have pentas as front. I also accept sound is not on par with Avant and one doesn´t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out why.

delighted with mine  timed today, start up time to curtains opening 22 seconds

malcolm

I think B&O should think themselves very lucky, that there isn't any serious competition ready to absorb some pretty unhappy customers. 8,000 Euros for a sub standard picture, and sound!!! But wait, it does come in an aluminium frame. Are you guys nuts. If Bose had half a brain and tied up with say LG to make there own "premium" TV with half decent sound and processing, all the connections of Joddrel Bank and a nice cosmetic finish for a good price???????

chris wrote:

If Bose had half a brain and tied up with say LG to make there own "premium" TV with half decent sound and processing, all the connections of Joddrel Bank and a nice cosmetic finish for a good price???????

LOL, Bose! I'd prefer a telly without speakers to paying for something - anything - with Bose speakers.

Bose are the chrome of the crap.

And the B&O ones have been warmly applauded? I have small Bose system for my Mac and its excellent,especially considering its size and £300 price. But thats another story.

As stated above, the picture in my opinion is superb. The style is also simply the best. The sound knocks all similar sized TVs into a cocked hat but is just not as good as either an Avant or a BV5. The reasons for this are obvious - it is very thin. The provision of a BL11 could well help this but my decision was to change to a BV5.

As a matter of fact,Bose do have their own TV.

It is a 46" LCD Monitor,called the 'Videowave',and costs about £6000.

The various surround sound speakers are incorporated into the Monitor's housing.

Doctor wrote:

As stated above, the picture in my opinion is superb. The style is also simply the best. The sound knocks all similar sized TVs into a cocked hat but is just not as good as either an Avant or a BV5. The reasons for this are obvious - it is very thin. The provision of a BL11 could well help this but my decision was to change to a BV5.

Precisely right Doctor...🙂

See my previous post.....buy a BV-5!! 😕

Buy an earlier BV-5 for less than £2k - and leave urself a load of change (buy some other B&O or go on holiday...)

Or buy an HD-BV-5 (if you can find one) and you should still get change compared to buying a new BV-10.

Job done

😎

It would seem that more of the complaints relate to LCD  technology than B&O themselves.

Compared to plasma its a very second best and when OLED becomes a commercial reality LCD will fade away.

Just a great pity that B&O could not lise with  a better commercila partner than Samsung to at least give some sense of value to the product.