Sibbi wrote:

I am going to update my tv soon. I would love to have the Avant but it is to expensive for me. Do you think B&O will introduce a new tv at a lower price point? If not what would you recomend? I will be using it with beolab 17s.

seethroughyou wrote:

Despite being a B&O nut and adoring the Avant my wife wasn't having any of it and said no to spending £7000. We bought a £1000 Panasonic and I have to say it's superb and now in the cold light of day struggling to see how I could have entertained spending that much. I just think TV technology changes too quickly and if I'm honest, I struggled to see any discernible difference in picture quality between our Panasonic and the Avant in the shop. Sound is half the picture as B&O say and now with the Hub you can connect the Panasonic OLED to a set of B&O speakers. Best of three worlds: excellent Panasonic picture, excellent B&O sound and £4-5000 under your mattress to blow on Fish & Chips, Beer and Curries, vodka jelly and ice cream or whatever takes your fancy.

Thanks for your help.  I do have a pair of beolab 17s and an essence mk1 and the transmitter1.  B&O tv would have been my first choice but the v1 is to small and the Avant to pricey.  I would be stuck with stereo sound though. Maybe later I could add a bluray player like an Oppo that could decode surround sound.  

Has anyone else heard of a 48" tv arriving next summer.

vlohjr1 wrote:

Sibbi wrote:

I am going to update my tv soon. I would love to have the Avant but it is to expensive for me. Do you think B&O will introduce a new tv at a lower price point? If not what would you recomend? I will be using it with beolab 17s.

Yes next summer a v1 replacement up to 48"

Could you, please verify that info!!!

You'd be the first one to have heard that....if it is true.

MM

x16szr wrote:

And what about Dolby 5.1 Sound??!!

There's still NO DDS Module in any TV, but in Loewe and B&O.

Greets from Stefan.

It seems a fact that a lot of the tv-buyers today care much, much more for picture than for sound.

Connecting a pair of B&O speakers to a non-B&O tv may give a person a slice of the B&O experience.

But it certainly won't give you the qualities of the in-built audioengine of a BV - not to speak of the tv speaker(s).

MM

I am not sure what prices are any longer, but a BV11-46 might be a good choice. The screen is excellent and the sound is beyond what you would get with a non-BO and BL17s. I think what is little understood is how well the BV acts as an integrator and eliminates the needs for a lot of separate components as you build out your system. By the way if you have BV17s, in future you may want to add a BV19 - substantial improvement in performance whether you use it with the BV or the BL17s alone.