Beovision 7-55 compared to todays top competitors

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moxxey (archived2)
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Posted August 21, 2014 at 16:05 GMT
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Chris Townsend wrote:

If you can get one for those prices, you would be stark raving mad to consider anything else.

Which is why I said you'd be stark raving mad to trade-in a BV7-55 against an Avant, knowing how the Avant performs against my old BV11.

I'd recommend a BV7-55 over anything in the market, with current TV broadcasting. As long as you can cope with the size of the TV. My Avant is too big and the BV7-55 feels even larger.

Someone posted on B&O's FB page that the Avant was a PQ upgrade on his BV7-55 which he'd traded-in. Some people are delusional.

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Tonker (archived2)
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Posted August 21, 2014 at 16:12 GMT
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I couldn't believe the logic there too. I'm not knocking the Avant, I think it will mature into a long lasting successful product.

But until it's gets OLED or an equivalent panel it can never compare to the 7, a TV originally over twice the Avants price. The Bose type speaker v a Beolab 7-6, not even a contest.
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mawheele (archived2)
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Posted August 21, 2014 at 17:14 GMT
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moxxey wrote:

Which is why I said you'd be stark raving mad to trade-in a BV7-55 against an Avant, knowing how the Avant performs against my old BV11.

I'd recommend a BV7-55 over anything in the market, with current TV broadcasting. As long as you can cope with the size of the TV. My Avant is too big and the BV7-55 feels even larger.

Someone posted on B&O's FB page that the Avant was a PQ upgrade on his BV7-55 which he'd traded-in. Some people are delusional.

Or they have a different point of view.

For some content I think they are right.

If the screen was that good they'd still be selling it. In my view it was tired technologically.

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moxxey (archived2)
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Posted August 21, 2014 at 17:20 GMT
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mawheele wrote:
For some content I think they are right.

I wouldn't disagree. Some. Certainly equal.

But the vast majority looks far better on a BV7-55. Besides, I'd have never spent over £10K on one, then traded it in and take a multi-thousand pound hit, to effectively have a A/V downgrade, for the same size panel! I could understand someone moving across to a 65", 70" or 85", not not the sideways step. Just makes no sense.

Saying it was "tired technologically" is B&O's middle-aged marketing dream :)

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mawheele (archived2)
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Posted August 21, 2014 at 23:02 GMT
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moxxey wrote:

Saying it was "tired technologically" is B&O's middle-aged marketing dream :)

Who is prepared today to accept having a dealer have to visit to update a dysfunctional hotch potch collection of software updates over an hour that somehow they called firmware?

The bs3 was never great from the outset compromised by being modular and got pushed to its limits to get made better plus support 3d.

The bs4 is a much better system altogether.

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Leosgonewild
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Posted February 19, 2020 at 09:47 GMT
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I have the opportunity to buy a Beovision 7 55 mk1 with T-module for 1300 euros.

How does this display compare to LG`s OLED displays? I currently have a LG C7.

 

Tempted by the BV7 :P

 

-leosgonewild 

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Robindedie (archived2)
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Posted February 19, 2020 at 14:23 GMT
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I don't know, but am curious about the answer, as the BV7 is still one the most attractive BV's to me :-)

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oli
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Posted February 19, 2020 at 14:57 GMT
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Quoting myself from the Facebook group:

To me it is the best LED picture that a manufacturer has been able to propose on the market, even if the panel is from Samsung or other. With the contrast screen and light adaptation uniq to B&O, the black is really black, nothing to compare with even more recent panels like BV11 (which I have too) or BV14. And I do prefer the smoother image quality to the OLED stuff too sharp to me, we are now proposed
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Robindedie (archived2)
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Posted February 19, 2020 at 15:05 GMT
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thanks for the information - looks like a great TV to look after :-D

 

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Robindedie (archived2)
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Posted February 19, 2020 at 15:05 GMT
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thanks for the information - looks like a great TV to look after :-D

 

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