Just learned today that the Eclipse will not (!) be able to control the BS9k, or work together with the BV5 and BL8k in a multiroom setup. It looks like B&O have got similar requests from existing customers, but with the current SW setup it will not work. Hopefully B&O will upgrade the Eclipse sw to enable such a setup.

So that means that we either have to wait (until a sw update) or upgrade the BV5 to a pre-owned  Beovision (11, 12, 14 or Avant) or buy a new 14 or Avant.

BeoET wrote:

Just learned today that the Eclipse will not (!) be able to control the BS9k, or work together with the BV5 and BL8k in a multiroom setup. It looks like B&O have got similar requests from existing customers, but with the current SW setup it will not work. Hopefully B&O will upgrade the Eclipse sw to enable such a setup.

So that means that we either have to wait (until a sw update) or upgrade the BV5 to a pre-owned  Beovision (11, 12, 14 or Avant) or buy a new 14 or Avant.

Thanks for this post. It is a great question.  I have read the setup instructions for the Beovision Eclipse.  It will work with NL products such as Beosound 2 but I could not find any reference to a NL/ML converter or the limitations of earlier products. Maybe some of the dealers who post on Beoworld have some ideas.

linder wrote:

 It will work with NL products such as Beosound 2 but I could not find any reference to a NL/ML converter or the limitations of earlier products. Maybe some of the dealers who post on Beoworld have some ideas.

Interesting would be: start a BLC connected ML source. Give a JOIN to for example an A6 and the Eclipse.

or

program the BLC connected ML product as a source of an Essence mkII. Start this source on the Essence and JOIN the Eclipse!

 

 

What would be interesting is if the soundbar could be purchased by itself !

It seems the integration is simply HDMI2 and the power supply !

Is there a "beosystem 5" inside the soundbar ?????

elephant wrote:

Is there a "beosystem 5" inside the soundbar

No - that would imply a video engine included.

Puncher wrote:

elephant wrote:

Is there a "beosystem 5" inside the soundbar

No - that would imply a video engine included.

But presumably there is a PUC module to control the screen.... the reverse of what is found in previous  Beovisions.

Graham

vikinger wrote:

Puncher wrote:

elephant wrote:

Is there a "beosystem 5" inside the soundbar

No - that would imply a video engine included.

But presumably there is a PUC module to control the screen.... the reverse of what is found in previous  Beovisions.

Graham

 

There is a videopart in Sound Center as well, since it handles the primary HDMI-inputs. But its merely af videoswitcher like the one found in AV-receivers, switching inputs to the TV-part.

I don't see any videoprocessing in Sound Center.

  /Lars

The soundbar by itself controlled via hdmi arc/cec and puc etc like it more less is now would be ideal. Even if b&o would only support lg's, and maby very few others, atleast that would give us easier size choice and upgradeability. I have the feeling that the soundbar in 2-4 years time will still be top notch, but the screen/webos not so much. Unless somehow they've managed to make lg support this platform longer than lg does with its own platforms.

What I am starting to wonder is if it is now too late now for B&O to recover or come back on the TV front. For example, I have been waiting a few years purposely for this OLED in the desperate hope that it would be the right TV. I would never wait so long with any other brand so if that doesn't show loyalty, hope and support for my favourite brand on my part I don't know what does. Like many of its recent predecessors, it hasn't been even close to what I expected, and in many ways its shortcomings are even worse (in my opinion) in the sense of less B&O. I simply can't keep waiting for the generation 2 in the hope this will be what I expect, then generation 3 if generation 2 is a further let down and so on. I think B&O have proved that they just don't get it on the TV front. They're not in touch with what their customers look for in a Bang & Olufsen product anymore.

I will need to buy a TV in the next 6 months when my house renovations are complete and I think I'll be hard pushed paying c£5,000 for an Avant 2014 model or earlier when there are sets like the Sony A1 out there now, let alone what might be available in 6 months. If I do decide to pay 'B&O money' I would get the LG W7 wallpaper TV. Who wouldn't? Let's be serious for a minute, who on earth would buy an Eclipse over that? Some here would perhaps, and if you are one of them (genuinely) then please tell me your reasoning as I am very curious to know how you arrive at this decision.  

D'accord

I agree

Like you I had been hoping it was THE BeoVision

Now I am struggling - perhaps (without your good reasons) I'll also wait for six months ...

Deep down I am hoping that I could sit down with someone from Struer and discover there is a lot more behind the covers ... I sincerely deeply fanatically hope so ...