a 5/5 review for perfomance and features.

Simon.

The marketing boys have done a wonderful job in pushing 1080 and they continue to do so becaise it sells TVs!!

We had a discussion before and my thoughts then was that B&O had not created the 'holy grail' of LCDs but it was probably 10% better than the MK11  and it would seem from your post thats about right.

The juddering you describe is not down to the fact that B&O have made a screen so good that it shows up all those  inadequte pictures!! with 1080 you have 45% more information to process than a standard HD screen. So HD should look slighly better but its open to debate how it handles standard broadcast material. For plasma pansaonic now support 24 frme rate panels which it transpires seem to cause more problems than they intended to solve!- in an effort to stop juddering- which some individuals notice more than others

The BV7 is a great product though- for an lcd but for the most part the 1080 panels now being produced for the mass market are made to a price and the only way that can be acheived is to reduce the processing power of the TV.

Interestingly I was recently involved with an associate who purchased a sony b300 blue ray and a samsung 1080 plasma- even in HD the picture was truly awfull , the inbuilt DTV a disaster- but in the trade its a 'mugs eyeful' all the specs but cant deliver. I think HD ( unless one uses a projector) is the biggest con ever perpetrated on the public, Very poor disc quality at enourmous expense, and on many dvd one cannot tell the difference between stadard upsacled dvd and HD- so one is left with a small number of trophy discs( which generally have rubbish content) to impress with true HD!

My BV7 mk3  showed a light improvement  after about a week.At present I am underwhelmed with the PQ.This is watching SD via Freview and terrestrial broadcasts.

Blacks may be better than before but with the lights out it is still 'LCD black'...meaning grey! 

Perception of depth is also pretty average [compared to the Avant] it is far from the stunning 3D that the CRT delivers.

The biggest problem I have is with pixellation,especially during panning/movement.Not impressed.This is less noticeable on good quality dvds,however. 

Fed a decent signal,I'm sure it will deliver it's potential,whatever that may be.

Very happy with the sound quality of the 7.2. So far I haven't felt the need to hook up the sub.

I did consider the Pioneer Kuro which was great with dvd/blueray but unwatchable on terrestrial [pixel-city] No doubt partly due to aeriel losses/lights etc.

I love the design and integration though.That was a big factor in my decision making process. 

If B&O offered a Kuro [BV4+?] panel,with integrated dvd/hddvd/blueray/BS3 that could be mounted on the BV7 stand for a similar price to the LCD panel,I'd go for one of those tbh.

haha , true dat

 i'd hardly call james last in concert testing material for any a/v system

unless you're testing the listener's patience that is 

 :) 

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Hello. I am also an owner of the BV 7 40 MKIII since 4 weeks. Before I had an Avant. The picture sharpness and the colours are amazing (like the Avant before). But from the first moment I thought, there's something different and propably wrong with this TV set. So I started to test with different DVD's.

Now I realize, that the picture gets unsharp as soon as there's a little motion in there. Example: In Star Trek 9 the starship ist very sharp when I freeze the picture. When I put play now, the vessel and its contoures gets unsharp and the lights gets much longer. Example 2: The Simpsons Movie: I can see double pictures. I also see that in other films (there's the normal motion unsharpness as we know it from cinema plus the unsharpness from the panel!). 

If I go to the Media Market an look to the newest 100 Hz Solutions of Philips or Sharp, than I realize that these TV's have not such a "motion problem" as my BV 7 has. I could see that very good, because there was also the Simpson's Movie running.  So, I have the bad feeling now, that I bought the most expensive TV set on the market and get an old 60 Hz Samsung panel with it. I really trustet blind to the B&O Marketing Service that promissed, that I will get "the most advanced TV on the market." I never was disappointet by B&O products before (since 15 years). But now, I consider to wait for the next BV 7 MK IV and sell my MK III then (after testing the new MK IV of course). Or the other solution (which would hurt of course) could be to sell all B&O stuff and change the brand. I will see, what future brings.

Regards

Patrick 

Well, I am really delighted to see how honest people are about their new Beovision 7 latest version.

Not only pray stories but a plain straight look at the product. I don't have a Beovision LCD by myself but I am shocked that Bang & Olufsen seems to have motion problems and other picture disturbtions on this brand new high end pricy Beovision 7 and that other brands which cost much less don't seem to have them.

That is not what you may expect for such a high price and from a brand that calls itself premium. Can't you give it back to your dealer that it does not reach your demand of expectations?

To watch every day to a television with those trouble if you see them seems to me very hard.