BV14 and Beovision Horizon - any feedback?

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After reading all this I am really apprehensive to go ahead with ordering a new Avant. Horrible experiences. After giving up with Spotify on the BS5 I don't feel like wasting nearly 8 grand on a TV that doesn't work either. I'm still using my BV5 and am in the market for a new TV. B&O are offering a good trade-in price for the BV5 but if it's worth the pain? 😉.... Are there any positive user experiences out there? I'm a Loyal B&O fan through and through and can't believe what I'm reading here!

I am okay with how my BVH40 is improving with every update. I am on 115 update and things have improved significantly from when i bought it last year in august.

Since the last update I can join my beosound 1's and now i can have multiroom music. It is not yet the experience I expected for example I have Google stuff (Home, Wifi, Watch, Pixels etc) and the BV cannot join using google cast. You need to use the remote one. I cannot create a chromecast group including the BVH. But multiroom works the way B&O intended I guess.

They only that doesnt work smoothly yet is Netflix (the Netherlands). Sometimes it does sometimes it doesnt. The trick I use it to start from my Pixel and cast it to the BVH. Works for me but wife who is not so techy doesnt like it :-).

 

good luck on your choice.

I am okay with how my BVH40 is improving with every update. I am on 115 update and things have improved significantly from when i bought it last year in august.

Since the last update I can join my beosound 1's and now i can have multiroom music. It is not yet the experience I expected for example I have Google stuff (Home, Wifi, Watch, Pixels etc) and the BV cannot join using google cast. You need to use the remote one. I cannot create a chromecast group including the BVH. But multiroom works the way B&O intended I guess.

They only that doesnt work smoothly yet is Netflix (the Netherlands). Sometimes it does sometimes it doesnt. The trick I use it to start from my Pixel and cast it to the BVH. Works for me but wife who is not so techy doesnt like it :-).

 

good luck on your choice.

I am okay with how my BVH40 is improving with every update. I am on 115 update and things have improved significantly from when i bought it last year in august.

Since the last update I can join my beosound 1's and now i can have multiroom music. It is not yet the experience I expected for example I have Google stuff (Home, Wifi, Watch, Pixels etc) and the BV cannot join using google cast. You need to use the remote one. I cannot create a chromecast group including the BVH. But multiroom works the way B&O intended I guess.

They only that doesnt work smoothly yet is Netflix (the Netherlands). Sometimes it does sometimes it doesnt. The trick I use it to start from my Pixel and cast it to the BVH. Works for me but wife who is not so techy doesnt like it :-).

 

good luck on your choice.

I am okay with how my BVH40 is improving with every update. I am on 115 update and things have improved significantly from when i bought it last year in august.

Since the last update I can join my beosound 1's and now i can have multiroom music. It is not yet the experience I expected for example I have Google stuff (Home, Wifi, Watch, Pixels etc) and the BV cannot join using google cast. You need to use the remote one. I cannot create a chromecast group including the BVH. But multiroom works the way B&O intended I guess.

They only that doesnt work smoothly yet is Netflix (the Netherlands). Sometimes it does sometimes it doesnt. The trick I use it to start from my Pixel and cast it to the BVH. Works for me but wife who is not so techy doesnt like it :-).

 

good luck on your choice.

I am okay with how my BVH40 is improving with every update. I am on 115 update and things have improved significantly from when i bought it last year in august.

Since the last update I can join my beosound 1's and now i can have multiroom music. It is not yet the experience I expected for example I have Google stuff (Home, Wifi, Watch, Pixels etc) and the BV cannot join using google cast. You need to use the remote one. I cannot create a chromecast group including the BVH. But multiroom works the way B&O intended I guess.

They only that doesnt work smoothly yet is Netflix (the Netherlands). Sometimes it does sometimes it doesnt. The trick I use it to start from my Pixel and cast it to the BVH. Works for me but wife who is not so techy doesnt like it :-).

 

good luck on your choice.

sorry all, somehow i managed to push the post button a zillion time ....😭

Unfortunately the current software can still crash, I experienced yesterday.

Sjengie wrote:

They only that doesnt work smoothly yet is Netflix (the Netherlands). Sometimes it does sometimes it doesnt. The trick I use it to start from my Pixel and cast it to the BVH. Works for me but wife who is not so techy doesnt like it :-).

From what I know... Netflix on the BeoVision 14/Horizon is gonna happen. Conflict between B&O and Netflix (something about a dedicated Netflix button and so on...)... and Netflix will not authorise the B&O platform to have Netflix onboard.. So sometimes it works.. and sometimes it doesn't...

Some criteria that Netflix is using: 

My B&O Icons:

BeoCenter-9500.png BeoCenter-9500.png
Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beosound.png Beosound.png
Beosound-Essence.png Beosound-Essence.png
Beosound-Emerge.png Beosound-Emerge.png
Beosound-Balance.png Beosound-Balance.png
Beoremote-One.png Beoremote-One.png
Beoplay-S3.png Beoplay-S3.png
Beoplay-M3.png Beoplay-M3.png
Beoplay-H9i.png Beoplay-H9i.png
Beoplay-Earset.png Beoplay-Earset.png
Beoplay-E8.png Beoplay-E8.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png

i'd be surprised if it does reappear soon(properly at least).....while the BV14 appears to meet Netflix's criteria on the surface, Nefiix are being increasingly firm in their dealings with hardware makers.....they excluded it from the new Vizio's i think, and even the new Oppo 4K Bluray player.....but who knows with these things, these situations tend to evolve over time.....the insistence on a dedicated Netflix remote button seems stupid to me......

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