Went to see it.
1. Stand menu now requires list - stand (ok) - manual move (ok) then arrows.
On my Avant it's list (stand shows up first as on the new one but I don't have to press ok even once - just arrows.
Now more cumbersome I think.
2. Speaker bar too wide. Just estethics I guess, too bad because it's now wider than Avant and that was wide.
3. It is very flimsy. Moving the tv by hand makes it bend.
4. The finish is so-so. Even the sound bar. Sad to say. A lot of plastic and gaps.
5. No contrast glass! Only on the plate below the speaker. 🤷♂️. I love contrast glass on B&O screens but now it's history at least on this model.
6. No metal frame on the tv. Bye nice aluminum and genuine craftsmanship.
7. Dodgy interface - shows a big HDMI2 logo while waiting for the sources connected to the soundbar to show up. However it boots instantly and with a B&O logo. Audio fades in/out but not the video. I miss the magic. There's a lot of glitches in the interface with different GUI and stuff blinking by in operation changes and turning on.
8. The GUI is all over the place. Several different designs. The settings app is clearly B&O custom and is really not too bad but since it has several styles I don't like it. Not even the right fonts used.
The Lg interface also looks very out of place. Huge, enormous font for channel and source and volume which looks nothing like the webOs startbar that it also has. Very annoying. I prefer elegance and a dark discrete interface. Get used to big white, or blue or whatever kind of text in all kinds of sizes and fonts - all over the screen without any kind of real idea behind it.
9. Speaker fret/grille pokes out in the center as on Beosound 35 almost. Looks like a nice touch but also a bit like the designer grasped for help. We will never know.
10. Netflix and amazon buttons on the remote? I know this was aa necessity but come on. I don't want them.
11. The colors pop, the black is great. Sound is great I think but didn't listen that much.
12. Stand is smaller than the Avant stand and the pipe is thinner too. Looks cheaper and won't extend from the wall as much of course.
13. The aluminum grille looks much better than the dark red cover. It was ugly I think.
14. The 65" I saw was labeled OLED65C7BOZ which turns up as a LG tv license for webos. Guess it means it's the C7 model of LG.
15. There's a lot of plastic on the back. Not very well oriented but I guess people don't usually connect pheriperals all the time.
The Avant and Bv11 was more cleverly designed with easy access ports. The plastic is flimsier than I've ever seen with B&O.
16. The back seems to be fake metal or very thin. Differs from the metal that's nice (on the sound bar). When you look at the set from behind the finishes differs a lot and you can see that much thought went into the soundbar but not to the rest. It's really nicer on the back than on the front! (The speaker bar that is).
All in all these are my first impressions. I was hoping to be ecstatic and I can't say I am. I think the partnership is good but they didn't work on the interface and it's a huge fail. Huge fail. I can't accept an interface that badly designed. It goes totally away from what I believe in. If the interface was designed to fit the tv I would like it much better.
The different materials and unevenness makes me struggle to like it. And the width of the speaker bar makes it hard to love. A bad design choose. Not only does it make it turn less since the speaker will hit the speaker bar sooner than the rest. It also makes it unnecessary wide. Strange choice when everything else is thinner than ANY other B&O Tv.
Not sure what they want really..
I would buy the soundbar alone if it was available. And preferably less wide. I would then buy any TV to use with it and just have the TV be a panel that turns on by HDMI - CEC. That's what they should have released at the same time. Would give B&O a lot of money.
