Clakke wrote:

Hi Electrified

Thank you, I have heard about it here and read about it. From what I understand, it won´t do so much difference with our BS4 for the moment😁

He he, no, that would probably be money out the window. Money that could be used on wine and beer (well, if I was to decide) 😎

Clakke wrote:

But this was what I mentioned in my post. They could be really good these future products. I just hope that it is not to late. If they had released the encore a little earlier, we might have bought it. Now we already have beoport and iPhone. Well, I will not say no already.

Me too. It does feel rather late but I (for one) clap my little hands with my fingers crossed hoping that this will finally mean a proper competitive entrance into digital media for B&O.

It looks like I just might be able to get me B&O "stereo" that fullfil my needs and wants.

(I have to say, it's difficult clapping with your fingers crossed, lol)

Because its so idiotic expensive and everybody how visits you and see your B&O system had to recognise how rich you are !

Olof wrote:

Because its so idiotic expensive and everybody how visits you and see your B&O system had to recognise how rich you are !

Just another good example to my opinion, thank You 😂

Because you can buy a Beosound 3 in a box and mint for £200 from Ebay, and then hug it all day long. Just programming it now and love listening to Wagner. Life does begin at 40(ish)

Fell in love with then brand when I was 10. A few years older, two years ago I was looking for a TV. I rarely actually watch TV, so it has to look nice turned off. I didn't like the design of 99% of them all - too similar (all flatscreens are similar black thingies), too "brandy" (big logos on the front), ugly from behind (most of them, as well). So I went for a BV6-26.

Now that the novely and love has worn off, and all the limits have come apparent, I'll probably switch to something cheaper. I also love big screens, so I'll probably get a projector, which B&O don't have per se.

Seven wrote:

Now that the novely and love has worn off, and all the limits have come apparent, I'll probably switch to something cheaper.

that is a SAD story !

what are the limitations that you found ? (apart from price)

I must admit that, when I was up North for Christmas, I was very impressed with my brother's brand new 46" LED Samsung TV, which he bought for about £800. Good looking TV, superb picture, very easy to use, reasonable sound and decent remote.

When you realise you could sell your BV7-40, buy a Samsung LED 46", connect the usual Apple TV, Sky HD, Playstation etc, but you'd have nearly £5000 left after the sale, you do wonder about your "love" for the B&O brand.

Hardly a sad story, just realism.

Out of interest, does anyone know if the B&O UK prices have risen since the VAT increase on 4 Jan? I know my favourite Swiss watch brand used the VAT increase as an excuse to increase their prices by 10%!

It has always been a bit like this though. An Avant DVD was over £5000 when new when you could buy another make for only a few hundred pounds. The quality of the picture and sound however was such that it was relatively easy to justify. I think the flat screens have narrowed the picture quality difference, though B&O do still offer an advantage to my eyes. The problem now however is the sound. The BV10 simply does not have the same sound quality as the earlier sets. This is purely down to volume of cabinet - you cannot have ultra slim and decent speaker volume. I buy B&O as much for sound quality as anything but the BV10 just doesn't have it for me. Happy to have changed back to the BV5.

I wouldn't have any other make though - none of the competitors I have heard have sound I would be happy with either.

Doctor wrote:

It has always been a bit like this though. An Avant DVD was over £5000 when new when you could buy another make for only a few hundred pounds. The quality of the picture and sound however was such that it was relatively easy to justify. I think the flat screens have narrowed the picture quality difference, though B&O do still offer an advantage to my eyes. The problem now however is the sound. The BV10 simply does not have the same sound quality as the earlier sets. This is purely down to volume of cabinet - you cannot have ultra slim and decent speaker volume. I buy B&O as much for sound quality as anything but the BV10 just doesn't have it for me. Happy to have changed back to the BV5.

I wouldn't have any other make though - none of the competitors I have heard have sound I would be happy with either.

.........although, to be fair, the BV7 & BV4 don't have any sound at all but rely on external speakers. The same will obviously apply to other manufacturers TV's.

elephant wrote:

Seven wrote:

Now that the novely and love has worn off, and all the limits have come apparent, I'll probably switch to something cheaper.

that is a SAD story !

what are the limitations that you found ? (apart from price)

Glad you asked. Here are a few:

• "Contrast" control doesn't change the picture one bit. I always looks the same way, no matter if it's in the middle, hard left or hard right. "Brightness" and "Colour" work fine, though.
• Manual states "Format 0 will make the picture go blank". It does, but doesn't dim the backlight on mine, so it still lights up considerably, making it not that feasible to use as a simple loudspeaker.
• Additionally, I tried out the teletext-subtitle function. Problem 1: the top bar of the teletext function (Page, Program, Point, Halt...) stays always visible, which distracts, and no other tv brand that I'm aware of does it that way. Problem 2: While in subtitle mode, tv doesn't display widescreen signals correctly (picture is terribly squeezed, like in mode "Format 3").
• But mostly, it's the price. In the video landscape, things are moving really fast (HD, now 3D, next ones will probably be HDR, 4K and higher FPS sources), it's not efficient to always pay 5x the amount, at least not for me.

Cheers!