I think I can understand you. But somehow, it is a little an unfair competition betwenn BV1 and BV8, as IMO they play in different leagues. First, you have to admit that the CRT technology was way farer developed at the time the BV1 was launched as the LCD technology is now as the BV8 is launched. And then, you must not forget that the BV8 is meant to be a "low budget" set and therefore per example has a less good picture quality as the BC6. I noticed that in the shop, but I didn't mind because I knew that the BV8 was an entry level TV.

"Salute" to Italy! 

 i sympathies with you i had similar experience with avant and replaced it with 7-32 i was not impressed with the picture , sound though was excellent on bv 7-32 sold it ,lost money with that never again take a plunge to b&o products my heart ruled my head .

good luck and happy new year

This is why B&O were reluctant to move over to LCD and Plasma (LCD particularly) and kept CRT sets in the range so long after other companies had almost all moved 'on'.

Without High Definition, CRT will outperform LCD easily and even with HD, some may still prefer CRT.

B&O's LCDs have by far the best picture on the market, as do their Plasmas, they're head and shoulders above the competition IMO. They're better than a lot of the old brand-X CRTs IMO, but the B&O CRTs are a damn difficult act to follow.

As for the sound, the BeoVision 1 is larger...

I think that it illustrates the point that if you watch mainly standard definition 4:3 television on a good quality B&O  CRT then there is little to gain by splashing out on an LCD TV.

I stood in a  (non B&O) TV shop today where they had displays of maybe two dozen plasma and LCD TV's showing a standard definition  4:3 picture on each of them (mainly with grossly oversaturated colours) . There wasn't a single TV there that was doing a significantly better job of displaying a normal broadcast better than my 20 year old LX2800.

I appreciate there may be  different considerations when it comes to 'Home Theatre' but if day-to-day TV watching is the priority the I couldn't recommend upgrading to any brand of LCD at the current ime as we are only now reaching the point where an LCD can maatch the quality of CRT.

Simon 

Dear sir,

 You should know that the Beovision 8 is ha HD-ready LCD tv. The picture of these television sets are very dependent on what kind of source you play on the television. LCD-tvs in general don't perform well with analogue tv signals. They perform OK with SD(standard definition) material from DVDs or digital-television. What you should do to experince the great picture that the Beovision 8 in fact can produce you should use it together with HD-material. For example, HD-DVD, Bluray or HD-digital televison. You can also connect your Beovision 8 to your PC and play HD-material in that way. You can go to

Sky would give you a much better image, even better, Sky-HD would give you a picture which would really begin to better the BeoVision 1 in a lot of ways, although you may not want to pay the price for Sky.

There's no Sky in Italy? 😉

I agree with Beoplayer. LCD needs a very good source like dvd or digital TV to convince. Analogue sources make the screens calculate a lot which has a very bad influence on picture quality. With analogue sources i.m.h.o. CRT is to be prefered. With digital sources and not moving pictures the sharpness of recent LCD's is very good, I think (much) better than CRT, but the LCD's still have problems with (camera)movement. At least more than a 100Hz CRT, although movement problems with the latest 100Hz CRT's were still not solved completely.