As far as I know there aren't any available to be seen; you're going in blind on this one.

It's not shipping yet, sadly. 'May' was the last info I received from my dealer and that was a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps later this month?

I don't expect a significant upgrade beyond the current BV7-40 MKIII.

BTW no LCD screen is going to be as good as an Avant with strong SD signal. CRT TVs smooth the image somewhat, whereas LCDs show every flaw 'as is'. With SD on your LCD screen, you'd be disappointed compared to an Avant.

A BV7-40 will excel with a HD source (ie. Blu-ray). The big advantage of a flat-panel over CRT is the size of the screen. ie. CRT can't do 40", 50", 65" and so on.

What does the move to 100Hz add?

If been told it will be in the shops in july.

FYI, the price rise of 10% is active from June 1st, any dealer telling you otherwise is either hard-pushing to get you to buy now or profiteering!

d4vidl4ur4 wrote:

What does the move to 100Hz add?

It improves the camera panning slightly, when watching football - ideal for me. If you only watch news and documentories, probably not a great deal! As I said, I don't expect to buy a MKIV panel and see a big improvement over the MKIII. I am upgrading the panel though.

Koning - you might be right. I heard that B&O have quite a few in-stock MKIIIs to shift before they can allow people to order the MKIV.

KingOfSnake wrote:

FYI, the price rise of 10% is active from June 1st, any dealer telling you otherwise is either hard-pushing to get you to buy now or profiteering!

Be careful about such a statement, the general price rise is indeed the 1st of June, but BV7 40 will go up on May 8th and not June 1st.  If you have an order in place now you will benefit from the current price.

KingOfSnake wrote:

FYI, the price rise of 10% is active from June 1st, any dealer telling you otherwise is either hard-pushing to get you to buy now or profiteering!

Not true.  The price increase for the 7-40 BluRay is from 9th May as stated above.  Anybody telling you a dealer who quotes you the increased price from that date is trying it on, is mis informed.

then again since it's all in one , it's not bad vfm at all really

bd player , dvd upscaler , 4 hdmis , 3 rgb scarts, 100hz - not a bad spec at all !

i just looked up the bravia site ( couldn't make head nor tail of the thing - so badly designed ) their stuff isn't so cheap plus you'll have loads of lovely boring boxes wired up all over your house !  eeeurgh..

they couldn't explain to me which was the better model , the z , the x , the ex , the zx or the xyz with added exz-zness