many thanks for your quick reply, be interesting see how much here in the canary isles

malcolm

moxxey wrote:

Since the 10% price increase, I think it's £4000? I might be wrong, but I'm sure it's there or thereabouts. I guess that excludes the cost of the stand. The BV7-40, with stand and speaker, is just under £10K.

Mine cost £3700.00 with a beo5 remote, and £150.00 for the wall bracket

beowhit wrote:

moxxey wrote:

Since the 10% price increase, I think it's £4000? I might be wrong, but I'm sure it's there or thereabouts. I guess that excludes the cost of the stand. The BV7-40, with stand and speaker, is just under £10K.

Mine cost £3700.00 with a beo5 remote, and £150.00 for the wall bracket

Yep, but since June the 1st, it went up 10%, so it's £3700 + £370, so around £4K now. Still very good value though for a B&O TV. Picture is superb, sound excellent.

I am also very happy wth my Beovision 8-40. Great picture and good sound.

One thing that I find a bit strange: I have connected the following speakers:

- 2xBL1

- 2xBL4000

- 1xBL2

When I setup the sound level using the Beovision sound menu (with the sample sound) I need to setup both the BL1 and BL4000 levels high compared the the center speaker. This however seems to be the wrong setting when playing movies or watching tv. I checked this using a Lucas sound testing menu on a DVD and this also proved that the sound levels were setup to high. Not to big a deal of course, I adjusted it and things work fine now.

Does anybody have the same experience?

Regards,

Bieele

My BV8 has arrived today, and so far I am quite happy with this tv

I hooked it up with an Apple TV and PS3 both can be controlled by beo4

Here with Beolab 6000, BS 4 and Lab 2

Has anyone notice the fan making clicking noises after watching BV8 for a few hours??  I might be too sensitive but in a quite room with the volume turn off, the clicking noise from the tv is quite audible.

After using it for a day,  I am really satisfied with its picture and sound quality, well worth the money, BUT I feel HD is still better on my BV7-40 mkIII.

aweicc wrote:

After using it for a day,  I am really satisfied with its picture and sound quality, well worth the money, BUT I feel HD is still better on my BV7-40 mkIII.

Hmm. I had my BV7-40 MKIV (same panel as the BV8-40) for 6 weeks before it was taken by my dealer and replaced with a newer BV7-40 MKIII, with a very recent 50Hz panel.

There is a difference in HD quality. However, I think some people would regard the MKIV 100Hz panel as better and others, worse. It's definitely sharper and brighter, but in some ways a bit too bright. I found the MKIV HD screen hurt my eyes when the room was quite dark. MKIII has as a less intense, less sharp and less bright screen, so it's also easier on the eyes.

I'm still 50/50 over whether this MKIII is actually a better TV than the MKIV. It has a better SD<>HD balance, enables you to use all four HDMI sockets, doesn't suffer from any linkroom issues, doesn't result in hissing speakers when there is no picture and so on. The key advantage of the MKIV is the updated panel (100Hz does make a difference for fast-moving sport, I noticed) and internal Blu-ray player. However, whether that internal Blu-ray player was worth the upgrade, is very very debatable.

I'm half-tempted to tell my dealer to keep and sell my forthcoming replacement MKIV to someone else!

There is actually no difference in the number of hdmi sockets between mkIII and MKIV, I installed HD turner, thats one hdmi gone, and for blueray playback I put in a PS3, thats another one gone.

At the end I am left with only 2 hdmi sockets, same situation as the MKIV.

If I were you, I would keep the latest version of BV7-40, I believe all the problems ppl are experiencing right now will be ironed out in the future, its the same with the MKIII, I remember when it first came out, there are a lot of complaints here on the forum as well.

aweicc wrote:

There is actually no difference in the number of hdmi sockets between mkIII and MKIV, I installed HD turner, thats one hdmi gone, and for blueray playback I put in a PS3, thats another one gone.

Correct, and that's what's annoying - the fact that B&O used two of the external sockets for internal modules, but originally advertised it as having 4 x HDMI sockets.

I agree many of the MKIV issues will be ironed out. However, I think I'm the only one who thinks that we shouldn't have to wait - I've been through all those issues with the MKIII! The MKIV isn't much different. There really shouldn't be any issues. Indeed, it's been in development since Feb 2008. I know Razlaw and a couple of others like to emphasise they've had 'no problems' with their MKIII, but the many pages of discussion on this forum will suggest there are a lot of people who have had...