don't know the SW of your B&O but this is a big issue that is present also in the last SW version of BS3....it's seldom,but inadmissible for what you pay.

I still wait an official stance from b&o....

One of my mates used to complain about my dark MKIII every time we used the Playstation 3. Some games were unplayable as the scenes were too dark. Nothing B&O could do about that. It's simply the LCD panel and, perhaps, some of the panels chosen (for some MKIIIs) were darker than others?

Upgraded to the MKIV and those dark screen problems disappeared.

Does the picture brighten up after its been on a while? Cheers Nick

The picture lightens up a bit, but there is a big difference from the new and my old one. Wonder how B&O can sell this for 8000 Euros, I guess they know that this picture is unacceptable. Software is new, black menus... if I bought a new one, how much discount in % do you think I can get if I give a dealer mine?

Mine is dark to start with and after an hour or so it brightens up!  I think its part and parcel of older lcd tv's in general!

Nickyg63 wrote:

Mine is dark to start with and after an hour or so it brightens up!  I think its part and parcel of older lcd tv's in general!

i don't think so...it happens also with plasma screen,and i (imho) believe it's something about not handling HD signal correctly....a bug in the SW
bohhhh 

moxxey wrote:

One of my mates used to complain about my dark MKIII every time we used the Playstation 3. Some games were unplayable as the scenes were too dark. Nothing B&O could do about that. It's simply the LCD panel and, perhaps, some of the panels chosen (for some MKIIIs) were darker than others?

That's a PS3 "problem" not a Tv problem, except bad panel of course.

If the picture is too dark, you have to set PS3 on "RGB limited" instead of "full RGB" (picture adjustements).

Cheers,

Gregory

BeoGreg wrote:

That's a PS3 "problem" not a Tv problem, except bad panel of course.

If the picture is too dark, you have to set PS3 on "RGB limited" instead of "full RGB" (picture adjustements).

It was set to RGB limited!

The PS3 comment was an example. The TV was dark. The MKIV is *much* improved. You did note that I mentioned this, above? The same TVs, configured in the same manner, result in different darkness levels.

Certain movies on the MKIII were much darker than they are on the MKIV. Some films, whilst certainly not unwatchable, were too dark in places for my liking.

The reason for bringing up the PS3 example was due to a mate constantly complaining that the MKIII was "too dark" and me defending the picture pretending it was ok. As I said, as soon as I moved to the MKIV, those games were playable, movies brighter and dark levels more even.

ps3 £200

new panel £2,000

what a  bno bargain