The dealers have they already seen this new BV7-40 MKIV

Are the improvements huge?

The MKIII does have 24p, you just need the newest software update.

From what my dealer told me, the BV7-52" was put on hold due quality issues with the 52" panel.

Regards

imac

Beolab wrote:

24p = Yes Mk III and MK IV got 24p support.

And moxxey it´s not a scart cable between the dvd drive and the motherboard. They use computer IDE Ultra ATA cabling..

I think you miss my point entirely. I have no idea what cable is used from the mechanism to the motherboard, but I do assume that there is no audio decoding done on the mechanism side (and that's the point). So, if they insert a Blu-ray mechanism, then this is unlikely to decode the HD audio before passing to the TV motherboard. It will have to be done by the BS3.

Unless I'm wrong - and I hope I'll be wrong - this would mean that the internal Blu-ray drive wouldn't decode the audio to the level of, say, the Playstation 3.

Beolab wrote:

24p = Yes Mk III and MK IV got 24p support.

And moxxey it´s not a scart cable between the dvd drive and the motherboard. They use computer IDE Ultra ATA cabling..

No, they simply use a ribbon cable. IDE Ultra ATA is merely a method of parallel data transfer, which doesn't mean it's similar in any way to the way the data is carried from the DVD mech to the BeoVision 7-40 chassis.

 Moxxey i understand you perfectly, but i just hanged up on the "scart cable - sound issue" sentence you wrote.

The dvd player is only a transport, and only read the information on the disc and then the motherbord´s onboard software and audio / video processor´s (DAC´s) decodes the picture and the soundstream.

And yes Alex it is a ribbon data cable, but not as wide as an IDE cable.  I just wrote IDE so people here understand what sort of cable i menth, but they look the same but thinner.

Regards

If they do as Moxxey fears and introduce a HiDef video source without an updated BS3 to decode the HiDef audio it'll be very interesting to hear their reasoning! (on the other hand they could release a series of software updates over the coming years to try and introduce it on the fly - just before the next model is released). Sorry😳