Hi

Personally I am looking forward to seeing this product.  We can all guess and have our wish list,  but only time will tell.  Some of the products released lately have not really ensipred me,  BeoMedia 1 and Beo 5.  Both have the potential to be great products in the "digital age"  and I hope both are developed.  I have had my BeoMedia 1 for over a year and dispite being promised upgrades and additional features there hasn't been a single software or firmware upgrade.  I'm keen to see if the BS5 software is 'ported' to BeoMedia 1 and to see what additional functionallity it will give me.  Does anyone have any more details of the BeoMedia update?

Who know's the BS5 may encourage me to sell my BS3000 and BeoMedia 1..... Lets wait and see.

Greg

I find it humorous when one person bashes Apple for having "a billion" users and the other bashes them for having 5% market share.

I find it humorous when Apple comes out with something clever and cool and people here bash it because it's not from B&O... however if B&O had their name on it instead and put a ML port on it they'd probably think it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.  They'd talk about the incredible design of the B&O-TV and the lack of screw holes and the single consistent piece of metal that goes around it without seams and the user friendly user interface.

I find it humorous that people don't bother looking into the products that they're dissing.  MacBook Air for example.  It's less than twice as thick as the Beosound 6 at it's thickest point.  If you don't see the hype in that then look a little further.  Speaking of Beosound 6, that thing is garbage.  Who would buy that other than the hardest or hardcore B&O junkies?  It's all opinion obviously.  But my opinion is that anyone that doesn't think the iPod Touch is a better device than the BS6 must be inebriated.

Mostly it comes down to two kinds of people... the ones that happily embrace the future and what it gives us and those that are dragged kicking and screaming into the future.  I am both.  I look at all new technology and I want it... I want it right now.  New motorcycles... I want them right now.  New cars? Yes, please.  Old designs don't interest me.  They're old.  They were cool at the time, sure, but I don't like to live in the past... why should my possessions? 

However, with other stuff I do cling to the past.  Anyone that fences knows that the rules for foil changed 3 years ago.  I refuse to change.  I keep doing it the same old way.  And I lose.  Every time.

That's my point.  Fight the future and you'll lose.  You'll be the CD equivalent of that crazy guy with the 5000 alphabetically sorted LPs that doesn't own a CD player.  At least he's got the excuse that the album art is enjoyable and analog is warmer.  With a CD you don't even get that. 

Henri, I can only say, you are right. All my digitized music is in loosless format (wav) and I use BeoPort to controll this music. We dont have a iPod or MP3 player.

When we want to listen to music we use the CD-player, on the BS3000.

We started (8 years ago) with B&O when my wife wanted new loudspeakers. She wanted small speakers like pilars. Because the ones we had were to big. We have listened to several types, but we were not satisfied. Finaly we were confrontated with BeoLab1,6000 and 8000 and we decided to buy the BeoLab8000. First we thought, this can be true, it's is to expensive. But the speakers we had were also expensive and I used them for 15 years, without any problems! I bought an used NAD pre-amp to connect the BL8000 and so we started. One year later we bought an used BC2300 and after that some other B&O stuf.

We are satisfied with what we have, but we want a more effective manner to controll our digitized music and the BS5 seems to be the solution (I hope), if not we keep on using B&O like we do now.

Same for me, I dont want to start my computer or kep one up and running all day to have access to my music collection. Also a looseless format would be prefered. However, I love the concept to have easy access to  the entire music collection.  So  a Hard drive based B&O  device  would be a great solution, but a decent navigation in each room is a must.

Karsten 

Maybe the Release of the BeoSound 5 isn’t that far away …

BeoSound 5 

BeoMaster 5 

It seems that at least two parts of it passed some EMC tests.

I'm really really looking forward to this BeoSound/Master 5 (which sounds as though it may be a quite modular device). The issue with the BeoMedia 1 is the way in which the BeoPort interface for Windows had been adapted to work with the Beo4. It was originally designed to work with a mouse and keyboard, and 'adapting' it is never going to work.

The BS5 sounds much more exciting. With hands on control & a 'purpose designed' interface, it should be quite interesting.