The 7-55 is wonderful. I have a friend who is very much more into technical specifications and fine tuning of systems, dedicated theater etc in his house. He read the Flatpanels review and then watched our 7-55. He has never made strong statements about our other B and O including our previous 7-40. After viewing our 7-55 he said he thought we had the best tv in the world.

I just love the TV and the quality of the picture, it is truly amazing compared to everything else I have seen. I have the 7-55 on a low stand with BL7.2 and BL9 as front speakers.
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Just play a blueray on the TV, and you can really see the quality. But even SD signals (DVB-C) looks really good on that big screen compared to other big screen TV's. It seems that B&O does something with the SD signals.

Thanks for the replies.

It is really helpful to hear of actual owner's experience with a given product.

Now to arrange a demo.

TerryM wrote:

Thanks for the replies.

It is really helpful to hear of actual owner's experience with a given product.

Now to arrange a demo.

Exactly the right thing to do! I'm always wary of owner reviews, it's hard to buy something (especially if it's expensive) and admit it's not as great as you were expecting or hoped. Not that I'm suggesting this to be the case in the above plaudits but I stand by my statement - it's your living room it's going to stand in, it's you who has to watch it and, more importantly, it's you shelling out the cash. Others saying it's what you need may give you a cosy glow but try to be objective during the demo phase ... it's only you that has to live with your decision.

That said, I expect it to be at least as good as anything else out there.

My only problem with BV 7-55 is its size, too big for our living room. When can we expect BV 7-40 with LED backlight? (Or: How long can B&O be alone to sell a high quality TV with outdated CCFL technology?)

Sigmund i have wondered about this for a few years and recently had a discussion with a local dealer about. After comparing it to the 10-40, i eventually had to agree with the dealer that the colours were more natural on the CFL 7-40. 

Sigmund wrote:

My only problem with BV 7-55 is its size, too big for our living room. When can we expect BV 7-40 with LED backlight? (Or: How long can B&O be alone to sell a high quality TV with outdated CCFL technology?)

 

To be fair to B & O,there is a school of thought that CCFL backlighting is less prone to unevenness compared to the edge lit LED system.

I don't know if a 40" panel with full led backlighting is available from Samsung.

Certainly,Sharp produce them.

Due to unforseen circumstances,today has been the first opportunity I have had to demo the BV7-55.

The dealer's unit was combined with a Beolab 7-6 stereo speaker.

I was assured that the TV's settings were "out of the box",and due to time constraints,no attempt was made to adjust them.

The demo consisted of the standard Freeview transmissions,combined with a selection of my SD DVDs,and Blu-Ray discs.

The PQ was very impressive on Freeview,and showed steady improvement as one moved to SD DVD,and Blu-Ray.

I was impressed with the TV's Colour purity,Black Level,and it's handling of fast movements,evenness of backlighting,and off axis viewing,

However,I did notice that as the session,which lasted 90 minutes,progressed something,perhaps the glare from the screen,was inducing an headache.

Perhaps this is rectifiable by adjustment of settings.

The major disappointment was the Beolab 7-6 speaker,particularly bearing in mind it's cost.

This was highlighted by the opening sequence to the soundtrack of 'Gladiator',which sounded very 'muddied'.

The speaker appeared to cope better with simpler soundfields.

Again,the sound may be capable of improvement by adjustment of the TV's controls.

I think I will need another visit during which I will be able to adjust settings.

TerryM wrote:

Due to unforseen circumstances,today has been the first opportunity I have had to demo the BV7-55.

The dealer's unit was combined with a Beolab 7-6 stereo speaker.

I was assured that the TV's settings were "out of the box",and due to time constraints,no attempt was made to adjust them.

The demo consisted of the standard Freeview transmissions,combined with a selection of my SD DVDs,and Blu-Ray discs.

The PQ was very impressive on Freeview,and showed steady improvement as one moved to SD DVD,and Blu-Ray.

I was impressed with the TV's Colour purity,Black Level,and it's handling of fast movements,evenness of backlighting,and off axis viewing,

However,I did notice that as the session,which lasted 90 minutes,progressed something,perhaps the glare from the screen,was inducing an headache.

Perhaps this is rectifiable by adjustment of settings.

The major disappointment was the Beolab 7-6 speaker,particularly bearing in mind it's cost.

This was highlighted by the opening sequence to the soundtrack of 'Gladiator',which sounded very 'muddied'.

The speaker appeared to cope better with simpler soundfields.

Again,the sound may be capable of improvement by adjustment of the TV's controls.

I think I will need another visit during which I will be able to adjust settings.

I am not an owner of an 7-55 but I have extensively viewed it in a number of different showrooms, and have also heard the Beolab 7-6 and my thoughts as to it's sound are quite in contrast to yours.  However, I have heard it (7-6) in an AV movie role with both Beolab 5's and Beolab 9's - not on it's own.  This is an important point, because if you pop in a DVD or Bluray and are simply running the 7-6 in stereo mode with no other surround sound speakers in employ - i.e 5.1 or 7.1 surround, the processor in the TV will merely mix down the 5.1 or 7.1 soundtrack to two channel stereo.  This will result in noticeable degradation of the sound.

I don't know if this was the case re your audition, but I'd strongly recommend you try it in the context of a surround sound setup and properly level matched etc.

Hope this helps

Best Regards

John.... 🙂