Sandyb wrote:

are Android phones this unstable ?

Seanie_230 wrote:

How this can be such a mess is beyond me.

It is a mess - but they've been there before. BV7-40 SW issues.

My local dealer told me not to go near the BV14 until the next major software update at the earliest. A B&O dealer, warning a customer not to buy one of the products in the range! How crazy is that? But good to hear their honesty.

its interesting that, on the BV14 at least, if you look into the Android settings on the TV, there are an enormous number of apps open and running......npot sure exactly how significant that is, but many of them seem utterly irrelevant (judging by their names).........

Just by interest - can you run these BV's without having a Google account?

Can you delete app's without the account.

How far 'google-free' can they be used?

MM

moxxey wrote:

Seanie_230 wrote:

How this can be such a mess is beyond me.

It is a mess - but they've been there before. BV7-40 SW issues.

My local dealer told me not to go near the BV14 until the next major software update at the earliest. A B&O dealer, warning a customer not to buy one of the products in the range! How crazy is that? But good to hear their honesty.

LOL! I had exactly the same thing said to me Chris by a different dealer in a "not too distant land" from our happy neighbourhood!!! It is quite bizarre I agree.

Millemissen wrote:

Just by interest - can you run these BV's without having a Google account?

Can you delete app's without the account.

How far 'google-free' can they be used?

MM

You do not have to login on a Google account to use the BV's. I think Androïd is to "deep" in the system and that deleting system apps (if possible) will cause even more problems. Not only Android is the problem. The audio engine - which is B&O as far as I am aware of - also has bugs.

Thanks BartS

Just thinking how far can you go without Google - and if deleting apps would help.

But you are probably right - it is the integration of the AdroidTV engine and the B&O elements (including the audio engine) that is the problem.

I fear that they - with the LG/B&O tv's just around the corner - will never succeed in repairing this 'freak'!

MM

B&O just dressed up a chinese crap platform... sorry to say that, but the only "innovation" is the wood front, the rest is a big step down. If it was the original Hisense TV it would be okay, but not with the Bang & Olufsen text on the device.

Bang & Olufsen takes us customers for a ride with these devices! That shows the decision quality of the top management, too. Yes, hate me for that, but it's true. I love Bang & Olufsen but it hurts to see what they are doing and how lousy...


I should stockpile another few Beovision 11 as a backup if my TV dies some day. 🙂

While the problem are annoying (I have them myself), your analysis is too simple to be useful.

You are ignoring the picture processing engine, the sound configuration, the integration to other products and the other stuff that also goes into a B&O television.

Some elements are lacking and it is disappointing that a TV with so fundamental problems was released, nobody is disagreeing on that. But to say they just dressed up a Chinese TV is ignorant at best.