Fidse wrote:

LG has made a USB stick you can plug into your OLED screen, and that way make it WISA compatible.
You just choose WISA in the “audio out” settings, and the sound plays through your Beolabs 🙂

LG Innotek USB Tranmsitter. - Download product brief Her.

Looking forward to eARC -  Read here about eACR

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/hdmi-arc-explained-works-care/

The “e” in eARC stands for Enhanced (Audio Return Channel), and is a new standard feature of
HDMI 2.1 that aims to provide the best possible audio resolution from your TV. The new configuration
will require eARC support from both your TV and your audio device, which means your devices must
support HDMI 2.1 —  older HDMI versions will not support eARC.

Good reason not to update LG panels now.

moxxey wrote:

Lest we forget one important fact: these aren't off-the-shelf panels, either. LG has produced a special casing for them to slot in to the soundbar. This requires manufacturing tools and a minimum order quantity. So when we talk, rather too casually in my eyes, about a 'panel', it's far from some off-the-shelf piece.

If this is entirely true then it is daftness beyond imagine! I know that the back panel is different, either to hide whatever is behind it or else merely to tidy up the rear of the TV. To throw away the standard rear cover and replace it with a new one is fine if needs must, but to make mechanical changes to the basic TV chassis and therefore make it unique to LG is ludicrous, especially given that same chassis (as far as anyone can tell)  is all but "stock" in all performance-related respects.

The stand/Soundbar should've attached to the standard C7 TV via standard Vesa fitting,

Software changes (if indeed there are any) should have been "flashable" from a standard C7 TV.

New rear panel replaces standard and old one discarded.

At least, in the above scenario, the excess orders of standard TV's could have been off-loaded through other retail channels as standard LG TVs.

Wow... Is the LG Innotek USB stick already available in Europe ?. Please let me know as I would like to buy BL 18 speakers for my son’s LG C7 OLED. That set up will be just fine without the B&O Sound Center.

Hmm has anyone tried if the Wisa adapter will work with the Beosound Core? Seems like a simpler solution than a Transmitter 1 if the goal is only to connect two speakers in stereo.

Puncher wrote:

moxxey wrote:

Lest we forget one important fact: these aren't off-the-shelf panels, either. LG has produced a special casing for them to slot in to the soundbar. This requires manufacturing tools and a minimum order quantity. So when we talk, rather too casually in my eyes, about a 'panel', it's far from some off-the-shelf piece.

If this is entirely true then it is daftness beyond imagine! I know that the back panel is different, either to hide whatever is behind it or else merely to tidy up the rear of the TV. To throw away the standard rear cover and replace it with a new one is fine if needs must, but to make mechanical changes to the basic TV chassis and therefore make it unique to LG is ludicrous, especially given that same chassis (as far as anyone can tell)  is all but "stock" in all performance-related respects.

The stand/Soundbar should've attached to the standard C7 TV via standard Vesa fitting,

Software changes (if indeed there are any) should have been "flashable" from a standard C7 TV.

New rear panel replaces standard and old one discarded.

 

At least, in the above scenario, the excess orders of standard TV's could have been off-loaded through other retail channels as standard LG TVs.

 

There is a lot of software changes, the settings menu, how it turn off and its own adaptive light control.

And a standard back panel would not work, as your cannot hide the cables, as your can with the Eclipse, and not being able to do that, is not very B&O. Also the plastic grill behind it, matches B&O speakers. 

I know we talk a lot about the similarities, but I would say that a SONY Oled compared to a LG OLED, is much more comparable then a B&O Oled to a LG Oled.

Puncher wrote:

moxxey wrote:

Lest we forget one important fact: these aren't off-the-shelf panels, either. LG has produced a special casing for them to slot in to the soundbar. This requires manufacturing tools and a minimum order quantity. So when we talk, rather too casually in my eyes, about a 'panel', it's far from some off-the-shelf piece.

If this is entirely true then it is daftness beyond imagine!

Not really? You need a seamless way to drop in a panel in to the soundbar to make it look like a B&O TV. You can't just take a C7 and plonk it in a 'soundbar' and then charge £10K.

Of course, B&O might have been better producing a standalone soundbar, but whatever they did, it still wouldn't have looked like an elegant design - every TV is different. Even the Sony X1 is a custom OLED panel.

The issue with B&O is simply this: they don't sell enough TVs. They might have committed to 2000 LG panels with the custom case and it's just taken far longer to shift the current stock. Whereas the Sony X1 probably sells this monthly, worldwide.

moxxey wrote:

Not really? You need a seamless way to drop in a panel in to the soundbar to make it look like a B&O TV. You can't just take a C7 and plonk it in a 'soundbar' and then charge £10K.

I don't believe  that could not have been done using standard fixings behind a new rear (plastic) cover!

Emil Jensen wrote:

There is a lot of software changes, the settings menu, how it turn off and its own adaptive light control.

And a standard back panel would not work, as your cannot hide the cables, as your can with the Eclipse, and not being able to do that, is not very B&O. Also the plastic grill behind it, matches B&O speakers. 

I know we talk a lot about the similarities, but I would say that a SONY Oled compared to a LG OLED, is much more comparable then a B&O Oled to a LG Oled

I've said before, I'm suspicious about how many of these menus are HDMI overlays applied in the sound bar, including the light sensor. If this is indeed software within the panel, why on earth would you do it in a way that wasn't flashable from a standard tv? I've been an engineer for over 35years and I can honestly tell you that common sense is priceless and yet so many bright young things are completely devoid!

I've mentioned the replaceable back cover, as a tidy-upper behind the t.v. you decide if the mould tool is worth the outlay.