I must admit I bought a Loewe Connect at a evening one of my friends who owns a Loewe store held, and had to reply to Flappo:

1. I dont think Loewe themselves put themselves in the same league as Bang & Olufsen they actively say they fill the middle ground.

2. I use and am perfectly happy with MS, Actually I think most of the population do, my connect actually looks very apply so maybe they copy them too?

3. Copying is the finest form of flattery, However I have not seen a copy of the Beovision 8, Mind you in my opinion it is difficult to copy that "badly" as it is truely awful so may be your right.

4. I guess from reading your posts in the past that this is spite because of the one you bought 2 years ago? I love the picture my connect gives me, More than content.

5. Sweeping statement about speaker ranges, not as good as B&O without a shadow of a doubt but to label tragic is a little ................ tragic!

6. Again am guessing remote phrase is out of 2 year old spite! The remotes have changed now and are very similar to a BL1000, oh god thats them copying again!

Sorry in advance for uber rant but someone slagging of something I made a conscious descision to buy does not sit well in my thoughts Hahaha 😜

We, my dear friends, are Coke. We're better in the long run, though people continuously "sip" Pepsi and accuse us of being less tasty! 

    I could be wrong, but in terms of picture quality, but dont Samsung make your "coke" for you...?

I don't want to take the Coke/Pepsi analogy too far Beobilly, but Samsung (and Matsushita) supply the Caramel and the Corn Syrup...Bang & Olufsen control the 'secret ingredient'  and the balance of flavors that makes their product distinctive.

 Russ
 

BeoBilly, 

No, not in terms of picture quality. If you want to attribute our picture quality to anyone, you'd better mention our video engineers by name. By combining a good quality LCD along with processing chips, advanced light measurement, glare polarizing screen, etc. they've put together a full system that goes beyond what the original panel could possibly be capable of. 

I think Russ' caramel comment is dead on (but didn't Coke used to have an even better secret ingredient? ) 

 ) 

Interesting one this

So B&O use a good quality LCD- which is??

I was not aware that B&O make their own processing chips- please let us know the ones B&O use that are unique for the LCD panels like the bv8 for example??

 ) 

Trip, Trip, Trip....

That ingredient was never secret!  It was replaced by caffiene about 100 years ago.  More's the pity.  But the 'secret ingredient(s)' remain closely guarded.

Russ

As to the original post....  I was in my local shop today, Father's Day shopping, and they are playing the Blu-Ray 'Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds Live at Radio City Music Hall' on their BV-7 with a BL-7-2.  Previously it had been on a BV-4.  The initial impresson is that it's darker on the 7, and perhaps it is; but the picture is so clean, and smooth.  Oh, and the sound?     anyone else make a TV which can do that all by itself?

Russ

355f:

Interesting one this

 

So B&O use a good quality LCD- which is??

I was not aware that B&O make their own processing chips- please let us know the ones B&O use that are unique for the LCD panels like the bv8 for example??

It can't be a secret that B&O use Samsung LCD panels, or Matsushita Plasma panels.  Anyone following along will have known that already. 

I think Trip may have mis-typed here.  B&O is even less likely than Apple to be fabricating their own chips.  I would think that after careful research and development, in close cooperation with whomever the supplier is, B&O specifies software/firmware specs for the electronics to match their requirements.  Much as they do with the OEM's for the speaker drivers.  Nonetheless, that customization makes them 'unique', or 'custom' although not 'in-house'.  No need to pick nits.

Just because Coca-Cola doesn't own the farms which grow their ingredients....

Russ

Sometimes trip gets a bit carried away

Would have us believe that B&O have reinvented the wheel