No one questioned the sound quality on the bv7 before imho,but some say it is much improved picture from earlier models, i have seen the latest bv7-40 i still not good enough

Was the sound evaluated wit just the 7.x speaker or were additional speakers (all 7.1 ?) included ?

Do you know which speaker models were evaluated .....

-multimedia Robert- wrote:

The new BV7-40 with internal Blu Ray disc player is tested in German VIDEO/HomeVision magazine issue 12/2009. BV7 in the top 4 LCD 40 inch for image quality.

The results:
75 points for sound. New sound rating for the testers, max scale 60 points changed to 75 points!

I assuming that they didn't test a DTS-HD Blu-ray? :)

ed7 wrote:

No one questioned the sound quality on the bv7 before imho,but some say it is much improved picture from earlier models, i have seen the latest bv7-40 i still not good enough

Completely wrong. The picture on the BV7-40 is *outstanding* as long as the source is outstanding. This is the key point most people seem to overlook. The problem with the BV7-40 MKIV is that it displays everything 'as is'. If the video source is poor, the BV7-40 will make it look even more poor, IMHO. People don't understand that watching a poor SD picture on your BV7-40 will just result in a poor picture. They somehow expect the picture to be 'enhanced'. Don't really know what they are expecting, in all fairness. Unrealistic.

However, watch a well produced Blu-ray and it's difficult to better the picture.

BTW, the audio is very much questionable on the BV7-40 MKIV and we've debated it a lot on there - B&O released a Blu-ray TV without support for DTS-HS, which is the audio format of choice for most modern Blu-ray discs.

I have seen better picture on sd in "just a samsung" ,even the above german test  indicated .As for the speaker sound i owned 7-32 could not fault it at the time sound-wise,if b&o release the tv with-out dts-hs oh well what is new with b&o ,hdmi debate come to mind how long before they included it in their sets??!

349 points for image, (max is 415 points.) BV7 in the 40 inch top 4 now for image. Samsung panels have ratings 349 points.

BV7-40 MkIV = Are built around a Samsung panel, but i don´t think the magazine was aware of that? ;)

But the biggest difference is the video processor. Samsung uses their own one, but Bv7 are using Pixel Work processor clock witch is much more powerful to calculate and process data information= Less artefact's and juggies and show a much more natural picture with perfect Pal LCD coloring!

Regards!

elephant wrote:

Was the sound evaluated wit just the 7.x speaker or were additional speakers (all 7.1 ?) included ?

Do you know which speaker models were evaluated .....

It was tested with BeoLab 7-2. Not with other BL speakers. A few years ago BV7 was tested with BL7-4. PM me if you are interested in those test results. I saved that test magazine for my archive.

Beolab wrote:

But the biggest difference is the video processor. Samsung uses their own one, but Bv7 are using Pixel Work processor clock witch is much more powerful to calculate and process data information= Less artefact's and juggies and show a much more natural picture with perfect Pal LCD coloring!

 

I keep hearing this but do we know this to be a fact (especially since the BV3 is getting on now). Why would anyone elses DSP be necessarily worse than B&O's. In the olden days of needing extra analogue electronics to do the picture processing it was easy to understand why the Avant etc. had the best picture - nowadays when it is just processing 1's & 0's in an off the shelf DSP chip it isn't a given that it should be better.

Which Samsung TV got the 371 point score?

A trip to John Lewis will illustrate this for you!

However I continue to be surprised how a small company like B & O can maintain such an obviously better picture...

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Puncher wrote:

Beolab wrote:

But the biggest difference is the video processor. Samsung uses their own one, but Bv7 are using Pixel Work processor clock witch is much more powerful to calculate and process data information= Less artefact's and juggies and show a much more natural picture with perfect Pal LCD coloring!

 

I keep hearing this but do we know this to be a fact (especially since the BV3 is getting on now). Why would anyone elses DSP be necessarily worse than B&O's. In the olden days of needing extra analogue electronics to do the picture processing it was easy to understand why the Avant etc. had the best picture - nowadays when it is just processing 1's & 0's in an off the shelf DSP chip it isn't a given that it should be better.

Which Samsung TV got the 371 point score?