Does anyone know if/when there will be a software update for BV14?

Chris Townsend wrote:

I’m watching a YouTube film here which was released 6 days ago, stating that Android tv will be extinct within the year. What will 14 users do then?

The irony of the 14 is that the 11 was as good as it gets.

The number of product failures, disappointments, and abandonments in the last few years is outrageous. Companies go to great lengths to justify or hide from their errors, and angry people find ways to vent their frustration at any cost. In between, I believe in economic justice. History says those some of those 14 people will find out how good B&Os legal department is. 

Chris Townsend wrote:

I’m watching a YouTube film here which was released 6 days ago, stating that Android tv will be extinct within the year.

Chris Townsend wrote:

I’m watching a YouTube film here which was released 6 days ago, stating that Android tv will be extinct within the year. What will 14 users do then? Beolit 15, Beoplay A2, H6/H2, Form 2, Beoplay A3, Beovision 5-42 connected to a DVD1

Aussie Michael wrote:

And the reason that the luxury market exists is because people who are in it want something unique that not everyone else does.

But luxury means you don't have to think about standard functions, the standard is given, you just have to think about the "luxury parts" you pay for. Let's compare it with luxury cars. It;s nice to choose the cow which spends the leather and the tree which spends the wood if you don't have to think about the technical considerations. Who would buy a Bentley with their perfect materials inside and outside when the maximum speed was 190 km/h? Why should i buy a VW Golf, if i had that kind of Bentley just because i wanna drive 200+ km/h.

Why should i buy a luxury tv, when the horsepower of the tv is not standard anymore the day it arrives at the market.

Why do i have to buy and use a 3rd Party device, because "standard apps" don't work. 

The perfect aluminium frame, the motorized stands and the wooden frets and the wonderful sound are wonderful luxurious and expensive parts of a tv, but not the main part if you buy a tv. The main part today is screen quality, size and a just standard smart platform.

poodleboy wrote:

Chris Townsend wrote:

I’m watching a YouTube film here which was released 6 days ago, stating that Android tv will be extinct within the year. What will 14 users do then?

The irony of the 14 is that the 11 was as good as it gets.

The number of product failures, disappointments, and abandonments in the last few years is outrageous. Companies go to great lengths to justify or hide from their errors, and angry people find ways to vent their frustration at any cost. In between, I believe in economic justice. History says those some of those 14 people will find out how good B&Os legal department is. 

I agree, it's shameful how B&O's products have been pushed out not ready for prime time and then patched, poorly (updates breaking things, often more than they seem to fix) and then drop them when they can't get them right, leaving the poor customer out to dry, feeling like a fool. They seem to be caught between having to rush things out for investor/investment/stock price reasons so they appear to be in good shape, and not having the time to adequately plan their product porfolio in an integrated manner, and not adequately get their hardware and software working properly. It's the "get it out in a hurry and we'll fix it later" approach and it's killing the brand's reputation. The average lifetime of a new B&O product now seems to be 2-3 years, when before it was measured in decades. My BS9000 for example was marketed for over 20 years, and although it had three versions over the years, it lasted.

The only thing that seems to halfway make this possible is the reduction in development and manufacturing costs associated with outsourcing those functions to another company in China, which has its own issues obviously.

As a long, long time fan of B&O this saddens me greatly, and a pox on the houses of all the B&O management who let this happen, and even encouraged it.

Loewe TVs have their own OS software, I don't think B&O is a smaller company than Loewe ? At least the TV doesn't become obsolete if you haven't made the last update or if there are no more updates from third parties .. Some people will argue that BeoMaster 5 had a proper B&O OS and that it is no longer updated .. which is true: is it so hard to hire a software developer in Denmark?!

Christophe wrote:

Loewe TVs have their own OS software, I don't think B&O is a smaller company than Loewe ? At least the TV doesn't become obsolete if you haven't made the last update or if there are no more updates from third parties .. Some people will argue that BeoMaster 5 had a proper B&O OS and that it is no longer updated .. which is true: is it so hard to hire a software developer in Denmark?!

And Loewe have the Feature stick/drive. 

https://vimeo.com/183446596 for a flavour of their GUI. It's an example in how to make a TV UI clean, simple and beautiful. 

Yup, Loewe are definitely the new B&O.

I've just bought a second hand BV11-46 for the next few years as I am trying desperately to hang on to B&O but as stated a few posts above, the BV11 is, I agree, the last 'proper' BeoVision from Bang & Olufsen that is complete and works.

My next update in several years time will undoubtedly be an OLED and unless B&O make some kind of impressive comeback; well, it's going to be a Loewe set I should imagine. It would have been this time round had it not been that a 55" screen is probably still overkill in my new smaller property.

I totally agree with Jeff's post about the rushing of products to satisfy investors and shareholders etc. B&O have, unfortunately, sold their soul - and a long time ago at that. It's just not a company that has heart and spirit anymore.

Simon.