Our TV just died....yes!Our Panasonic LED coating £1300 new aged 3.5 years has just died. It had a 5 years warranty and John Lewis has offered us £850 cash. Naturally being a BeoFan my thoughts turned to a B&O TV. I'm after a BeoVision that was the last of the true B&O TVs that does not use Android which I hate. Somewhere I can hide a Blu-ray player and Apple box behind it. Uses one remote control that does everything. My frustration with our current TV is the terrible sound, difficult to hear dialogue and over powered by the music. Maximum size 55" as it's a modest British home. Used not new as my budget doesn’t stretch that far. Any suggestions?
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Our TV just died....yes!
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Best bet is an Avant 55 first Gen or an 11-55.
Anything else newer is android based
Perhaps title could have been 'our NON B&O TV died"
A couple of observations....
I think that’s a lousy offer from JL. I would be demanding the £1300, or a TV of the same value (which will obviously cost JL a lot less)
Would a new LG / Samsung not be a better propersition in terms of picture quality? I do take your point about sound quality, but a good quality sound bar / base fixes that.
I’ve never been a fan of B&O TVs... Just too overpriced.
Cheers
Nigel
If you look
Even for a non B&O TV fan, that does look very tempting!!!
Android ones are actually the last b&o ones I have a gen 1 Avant and a BV14. Both are excellent. If I were you I’d splurge and go for an eclipse.
Best bet is an Avant 55 first Gen or an 11-55.
I really couldn't recommend an Avant 55 1st gen. I had one and it lasted 3 months. It just looked like a 'first gen' 4K panel to me.
11-55 I would recommend. I owned one and loved it. Not 4K, but not needed for 55". You can use the most recent modern BeoRemote, hide older Apple TVs in the case and even hide a Sky box at the rear if the TV is in the corner of the room.
If you look link you can see that moxxey will offer his BV 11-46 for £1500.
He *might* have a 11-46 for sale 😁. If/when I do, I'll pop it on the 'for sale' section as per forum rules. It will be approx 5 weeks from now.
What's happening here is I'm having to move out of my current apartment in June as the landlord wants to revamp the building. So, making plans around this. Part of me wants to move to the US and work with my business partner out there and setup officially (right now we manage the US from the UK), but then there's the dreaded visa issues (spoke with an immigration lawyer yesterday and she says it's becoming immensely hard to get setup in the US under the current administration) and the other part of me wants a simple move within the same town - if that happens I'll take the 11-46 with me.
If anyone has any experience or advice on getting a visa to help a business partner setup in the US, let me know!
I still have my Avant gen 1 and don’t see any first gen issues. It’s not a backlit display and you come from plasma world so I guess that’s what you are referring to? I still am surprised how good the picture is and the only faults is when there’s dim material as it can’t get as black as a thicker backlit screen or oled. Otherwise it’s stellar and probably improved with its updates throughout software. As for the screen it’s a high quality ips screen with good colors and broad viewing angles. I love mine.I really couldn't recommend an Avant 55 1st gen. I had one and it lasted 3 months. It just looked like a 'first gen' 4K panel to me. 11-55 I would recommend. I owned one and loved it. Not 4K, but not needed for 55". You can use the most recent modern BeoRemote, hide older Apple TVs in the case and even hide a Sky box at the rear if the TV is in the corner of the room.
I still have my Avant gen 1 and don’t see any first gen issues. It’s not a backlit display and you come from plasma world so I guess that’s what you are referring to?
The first gen Avant I had was awful. I found it to be ultra-bright (even brighter than the BV11), had panning issues under HD and so on. Also, SD looked terrible as I guess it was up-scaling to 4K. And quite a few British channels/programmes were still in SD in those days! Granted 4K might have been beautiful, but there was zero 4K apart from a few test videos on YouTube.
But, it was one of the first out of the factory, so was a true early model. Swapped it for a BV11-55 which I kept for quite a while. Just felt that it was a classier TV and the panel was more settled than the Avant.
The BV12-65 is a relatively recent (2 years or so) purchase, so only used to plasma long after the Avant 55.
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