Nothing is 'Future Proof '.

After 4k there will be 8K etc etc

 

garethingram1 wrote:

Hi

Cannot easily find anything on other posts about the new Beovison14.

How different will it be to the Beovison11? Hear it will have 4k and other goodies.

We have never spent oodles on a TV before and if we plump want to try and be fairly 'future proof"

Can anyone help me please?

Anything is speculation at this point, but given that it is 4K (and hopefully a panel that will be capable of real HDR), and that it will have the latest video engine, I would rate it "future proof" for (at least) the next 5 years.

It won't be OLED, I hope it's local dimming (which is pretty much the requirement for true 4K HDR) and that it has the latest 4K codecs built-in.

Any improvement in the audio department over BV11 would be a nice surprise.

As for connectivity & interoperativity, I'm confident BV14 will work in the B&O ecosystem well beyond its years as a "cutting edge" TV.

Design is supposed to be very similar, with interesting new speaker cover options (wood). If you look at BV5 -> BV9 and BV10 -> BV11, the changes on this design path are most likely to be subtle.

In other words: worth waiting for, but a lot of details are still rumours or under tight NDAs. As always with B&O, patience is a virtue!

koning wrote:

Nothing is 'Future Proof '.

After 4k there will be 8K etc etc

Yep. Probably 32K by 2030.

15 years is not that long a time, after all, but it's a long time in "tech years".

4k 55 inch?

I don't think you can see the difference

koning wrote:

4k 55 inch?

I don't think you can see the difference

At a close distance, you can 🙂

Gareth,

WAIT one more year for the OLED option. Spending a lot of money on a LCD in 2016 is pure stupidity. Plus the LG partnership will produce as far more reliable set. Software has never been B&O's strong point - we joked about it 5 years ago and guess what, it's now even worse! Those sad souls on the Moment forum are test animals. 

Once you've seen the picture quality of LG's OLED's you'd never view LCD again EVEN the non 4K OLED from LG looked incredible last year.

If you need a new TV now, take a look at the LG/Panasonic's etc for £500 which DO have HDR. Spending any more on LCD is crazy. A walk into John Lewis to see OLED with its far superior viewing angle to LCD would convince you. Quite why B&O have taken so long to update the BV11 is pure stupidity especially now when OLED offers so much more. Kind of reminds me of when B&O released the BC1 as a 4:3 ratio TV when widescreen TVs were dominating the market.

Paul W wrote:

WAIT one more year for the OLED option. Spending a lot of money on a LCD in 2016 is pure stupidity. Plus the LG partnership will produce as far more reliable set. Software has never been B&O's strong point - we joked about it 5 years ago and guess what, it's now even worse!

Oh, the ignorance!

Let's not confuse the software of B&O's Video Engine with the software of, say, BeoSound Moment.

Nobody has been joking about the Video Engine of the newer BeoVisions – which includes the stellar audio DSP software, e.g. the Audio Engine, build with Geoff's industry-leading input.

I hope it carries on to the OLED models.

The software in the Moment is an entirely different matter.

OLED with B&O's Video Engine will, most likely, set new reference standards.

Paul W wrote:

Gareth,

WAIT one more year for the OLED option. Spending a lot of money on a LCD in 2016 is pure stupidity. Plus the LG partnership will produce as far more reliable set. Software has never been B&O's strong point - we joked about it 5 years ago and guess what, it's now even worse! Those sad souls on the Moment forum are test animals. 

Once you've seen the picture quality of LG's OLED's you'd never view LCD again EVEN the non 4K OLED from LG looked incredible last year.

If you need a new TV now, take a look at the LG/Panasonic's etc for £500 which DO have HDR. Spending any more on LCD is crazy. A walk into John Lewis to see OLED with its far superior viewing angle to LCD would convince you. Quite why B&O have taken so long to update the BV11 is pure stupidity especially now when OLED offers so much more. Kind of reminds me of when B&O released the BC1 as a 4:3 ratio TV when widescreen TVs were dominating the market.

Sony HDR 65 will start at at $7000, making B&O offerings look quite reasonable. 

I enjoy the superb picture from my BV11 and don't worry about new models. Let's face it you cannot tell the difference with these various pixel resolutions unless you have a cinema sized screen and want to read something with your face up against the TV, and something else will overtake HDR in due course.

Following the PW philosophy no one will ever buy a current model because there is always something better coming! When my wife worked in a radio &TV department they worked out that TVs cameras and PCs had a life of about 6 weeks before an upgrade came out! (But I have noticed that at least one Beoworlder seems to trade-up his tech equipment at about this sort of rate!)

Graham

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