Esh wrote:

would arrive in March and will be upgraded at a later date.

I hope your dealer swaps out your current MKIII and replaces with a MKIV. The new model will have an upgraded 100Hz panel and other improvements. I also hope he's doing this upgrade for free. Did you check?

I wouldn't assume so. The enhancements are the panel and the surround sound decoder, other than this and Blu-Ray being fitted by default, there will be little change. I can't see these upgrades alone being something to worry about/want upgrading.

Improvements will be made all the time, so there's no point in trying to stay on the edge of technology - you'd be replacing everything in your house every month!

Oh I must remind some of the largest dealers in the country not to express similar doubts but to check their facts by consulting Beoworld.  Personally I hope it is a baseless rumour but wouldn't surprise me............. egg on your face if it proves to be correct!

Alex wrote:

I wouldn't assume so. The enhancements are the panel and the surround sound decoder, other than this and Blu-Ray being fitted by default, there will be little change. I can't see these upgrades alone being something to worry about/want upgrading.

Improvements will be made all the time, so there's no point in trying to stay on the edge of technology - you'd be replacing everything in your house every month!

My dealer didn't mentioned that there will be upgrade anytime soon i.e. until Q3/4 in the 2009. Only mentioned that they plan to do the Bluray upgrade. Do you have some more details as to what upgrades are planned for the MK4 of the BV7? Can they be retrofitted back into the MK3 or they can't?

If the upgrades for BV7 are within this 1-2 months, I just might wait for it to comes out.

I'm with Moxxey here. Hasn't this been well sorted for months now? 

BeoVision 7 MkIV: 100/120hz panel w/ blu-ray. It will launch late spring/early summer depending on your market. 

The blu-ray player will play regular DVDs. Good gracious!

The upgrade is available to everyone who's bought the TV in the US as we've only ever sold the MkIII here. Europe is a slightly different story. 

A welcome upgrade to an already great television.

Might be a dumb question.. but can we opt to upgrade the panel as well??

Nothing's been said so far, but it's unlikely. It's not something I'd fret over though - the improvement will be a marginal increase and the cost of buying a new panel and disassembling the entire television won't be worth the picture improvement...

KingOfSnake wrote:

Oh I must remind some of the largest dealers in the country not to express similar doubts but to check their facts by consulting Beoworld.  Personally I hope it is a baseless rumour but wouldn't surprise me............. egg on your face if it proves to be correct!

You'd be surprised what your dealer does and doesn't know. Many dealers come from a primarily sales orientated background so sometimes get confused themselves. Sometimes they are overly keen to make a sale, too. No-one is saying they should be referring to Beoworld - or any other forum - but they are as bad and as guilty as others for spreading the OLED rumours, the 'Blu-ray won't play standard definition discs' angst and so on.

KingOfSnake wrote:

that is the word on the street and it would not surprise me if true

How could it possibly not surprise you, if true?  How far into the deepest darkest corners of the far East would B&O have to delve in order to find a manufacturer supplying a Blu-Ray player which cannot play normal DVDs?

i'd be VERY interested in this tv , if they could assure me that digital text works and you can add an internal recorder of some kind that just fits on the back or inside even and is controlled by the beo remote

come on bno , get it integrated !!

nobody wants loads of boxes connected up to the tv and loads of remotes all over the place  just because you didn't think about putting the features in in the first place