Good interview. 🤒 I hope B&O will have a successful future. Tue sure seems the right man for the job. 🙂

Tue interview sounds good,(he can talk the talk)!!,regarding beosound 8" B&O "was at least 3 years overdue!!! imho

elephant wrote:

9 LEE wrote:

Keep your comments coming - I know Tue will be reading this thread.

Good !

And as one Business Advisor to another 😂 ...

1/ Can we have a means (black box, software, wireless, airplay, who cares about the implementation!) to connect a BeoSound 8 to the BeoNet so new and old customers have a growth path ?

2/ Can we have something other than just earphones to "hook" in new customers ?

 

I agree 100% on both points. BS8 is really great but could have been greater if I could have the option to plug in to the ML. Right now it is a $1000 deadend product, but it could become $1000 component. I know that if I was a new B&O customer and wanted to expand this first purchase, I would be upset to find out that this first product wouldn't work with the expansion.

joeyboygolf wrote:

Do you really think that changing to yet another CEO is the answer???

The marketing and development departments need to identify, develop and bring to market, the next generation of "must have" products and that will NOT be achieved by the latest occupant of the "captains chair" alone!

Yes, at one point. The decision come from the top. Always.

BUT I am still convinced, like you, that future will come after identifying the next generation of products.

Let's take it to the basics in a simply (simple?) way :

What produce B&O? basically Sound&Videos products. they need to have a source to play. A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, the source was mainly CD/DVD. Today, they are (almost) dead and are supplanted by BR and digital storage. That gives us a hint where B&O will be heading in a near futur...

Well, That's my guess, and as I am a computer guy, my thoughts may be biased, but I doubt that a new product with Laser reader will be released.

sergio

bsantini wrote:

B&O does not make AV products.

 They deliver AV/personal photo, music and video, elevated to a top tier via most competitor's missing ingredient:

 Gestalt

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Well, not false ;) but do not forget that user experience, design & style are as important as the technical side of the  product. that is why the interview of M. Mantoni is extremely interesting when he declares that a product need to evolve on a 2-3 years basis...

great future!

CD/DVD are not dead at all. Some advanced electronical nerds may think so, but the average B&o-customer certainly still uses CD's. The marque always atracted a little conservative well-to-do public, who were looking for a classy, and first of all, easy to use AV installation. These people don't want to spoil their precious time with technical fuss or details, and are not exactly early adopters of new technical developments.

You can always play your CD on B&O's DVD players, that's probably what most people will end up doing, if they have/want no more BeoSound in their setup & don't rip their CDs.

seems like a cool guy!  Thanks for sharing